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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I'd love to go through and pick out problems but you are being slashdotted so you'll have to make do with what I remember
Scot says BeOS has lots of FS support. Says OS X doesn't. Offers no evidence that he even tried to find out, says he only tried FAT (which worked). Actually Scot was wrong, of course OS X supports other file systems -- it's a BSD!
Scot says MacIE 5.5 can't do PNG. Documentation, OS X users, Web standards agencies disagree. Scot doesn't offer example -> Probably related second hand or half remembered complaints of IE 5.5 on Windows (where alpha is broken)
Scot says BeOS handles files of "many gigabytes", but OS X can't. Offers no example of him trying this. Actually many BeOS users have enormous trouble with files of 2Gb or even smaller due to BFS infelicities, meanwhile Scot's fellow OS X users handle 4+Gb files with no trouble using largefile-capable application software (because it's UNIX)
I got tired of trying to guess which bits of the story were just "polish" and which had to do with Scot's actual experiences. Slashdot apparently loved it though, so something was achieved (I do hope OSNews makes money on hits)