Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
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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Sorry for the doublepost -- I got a MySQL error, hit reload, then saw two copies of my post. Lemme guess -- broken PHPnuke-ness?
Anyway...
One interesting aspect of OSX, as noted by http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/newsletters/20011126.html">... over on O'Reilly's site, is that there are now two major cliques of Mac users -- the oldschool folks that are clinging to OS9 and all its trappings, and a new breed of OSX users, many of whom are coming over from alternative systems like Linux & BeOS. The culture of the oldschool Mac users might tend more towards more expensive software, but that's not nearly so much the case for the more recent users, who more often than not are used to free & open source software. Admittedly, a lot of this stuff lives in the Terminal, and that's not what everyone wants, but certainly you can get a huge amount of software for cheap or free.
Hint: install http://fink.sourceforge.net/">Fink packages" rel="nofollow">http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/index.php">packages you'd like to have. Not everything is building cleanly (a lot of people are using it, but I can't get Gimp to install), but there are hundreds of applications that will build with a simple "fink install foo" command. Nice.