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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Overall, I think the article was well written and for the most part correct as long as you ignore just about everything concerning Linux. Why has Linux become the most hated OS of Be users? It confuses me since they've gotten a lot of apps from Linux. Anyways...
Chris Herborth wrote.... "I'm so sick of things not working in x86 land. Even something as basic as cut-n-paste is a total mishmash in Linux (also running Mandrake; 8.1, using KDE ask my desktop), and Windows is so bloody fragile... since I mostly use my home computers for playing games these days. "
I don't even know what to say to this .... You definatly should use Linux if you can't cut~n~paste in KDE. You need better gaming stability in windows? What a quandry. Never met a professional gamer before ...
Michel Clasquin writes... "Using anything else is *painful* now. MP3 and video apps? I'll have to give you that one, though Linux has more than enough audio apps for the average user. How relevant video editing is to the average computer user is a debate we can get into some other time ... "
Video apps are developing nicely too. There is Main Actor and Broadcast 2000 to name a couple. And for the pro's Houdini...
"But if Mandrake goes under, I'll just switch to SuSe. Heck, if *every* commercial Linux distro maker goes to the wall, there will still be Debian. In this sense, Linux is immortal. That should be a powerful factor to any ex-BeOS user ... "
<EG>Are you sure you were a Be user?</EG>
mac diesel... "For the record, MS bought 500K shares of non voting stock back then, hardly bailing out the company..... Funny thing is, those shares more than doubled in value with the advent of the iMac and then split, yet another wise business move by MS!"
Actually, good old MS bought shares w/ the right hand and sold short w/ the left ... they hedged that purchase of Apple shares. Which was probably a better business move considering Apple at the time.
Devesh.... "mySQL hiccuped several times while I read this article. Worse, it's missing features we should expect in an RDBMS. It would seem that even BFS is better than mySQL as a database. I would be more satisfied with MS SQL Server on Win2k than I would with mySQL on anything."
So many lol's in that one. First, I thought you were suggesting they purchase Oracle. Then you kind of imply that BFS is better then MySQL and could take a Slashdotting. And finally, I lol at the idea of MS taking a Slashdot. "Break out the old BSD boxes guys ... them damn ./'ers are a coming again. Someone get one of them BSD geeks on the phone..."
Larry