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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Well just wanted to let everyone know that I do have my new Ti-Book G4 and loving it, though I am mad that Apple has now decided to release one with combo drive 2 weeks after I got mine... I complained, but no luck winning their sympathy! Anyways being that some of you know that I work around various computers running various things like Windows, Linux and Solaris. I spent my first day back at work on sunday getting all my network settings and shared drives and printers working seamlessly, I can admit that Apple has made this simple with Mac OS X 10.1!! A few guys I work with are now using Windows XP on their new and/or old laptops and are having some trouble connecting to various printers and/or Linux servers running printers and shared drives, and even the case of properly browsing and accessing our own Windows NT servers, though I am not going to give them grief (though they had sort of chuckled when I said I would get a PowerBook, because they thought I was wasting my time) I am fully connected with all required networking items like shared drives on both the Windows and Unix servers for everything I need, my XP buddies, still working on it and have been since the release of XP. I imagine they will find a fix soon, but I won in this arena of compatibility, I am printing to printers they can't and see shared drives that they can't either. I can admit it felt good at the end of the day!
Scot wrote an excellent article and I have always liked his opinions on things. I miss BeOS as well, but can say that Mac OS X is starting to erase that feeling and I haven't played with BeOS too much lately. I do wish the BeOS community and all involved with the 'Save BeOS' project lots of luck, I can't wait to see some positive results.