Star MacOSX Week: Tales of a BeOS Refugee
Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
Features, Office The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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There will never be anything like BeOS again
by H-kon on Mon 17th Dec 2001 23:10 UTC

Even though i am posting from WinXP, i find myself being dumbed down and lost in a computer world that just has to be the dark ages. Nothing is exciting anymore. XP is awfully slow on my 1.4Ghz Athlon (Ooh, nice graphs on those benches)

Got 10.1.1 at work, playing with it all day long and to be frank, it's not really that exciting. The "oooooh!" wears of on you after 30 minutes when you are actually going to start doing something.

I do not think i will ever witness something as great as BeOS was, just a shame the potential was lost right at sunset.

Scot - Goot luck whereever you are. Hope you'll jump back in the pool with us once again in the future ;)