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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The only reason BeOS is considered a dead OS is because of people saying that it's dead.
Seriously. If your government suddenly quits one day, would you all flee the country or would you stay and try to do something about it?
Personally, I think BeOS is worth one more fight, perhaps even more than one. There is so much that can be done with the system allready as it is, there are a lot of applications that can be developed without BONE or hardware opengl. Sure, it would be hard to get commersial developers to port or make applications for the BeOS, but the same can be said about linux nowdays. Still there is a lot of development going on in the linuxworld, and most of it doesn't depend on the system being further developed.
The community is what keeps alternative operating systems alive, period. And there are still a lot of BeOS users, and yes it's actually getting new users all the time, all we need is to create the apps and keep updating them and they will stick to BeOS. If windows can get by with all it's bugs and badly written code, then BeOS could stay alive with it's few drawbacks, and as time goes by projects like OpenBeOS will be able to keep the OS updated.
Face it, BeOS isn't dead. You are free to move on the other operatingsystems, just don't say that the BeOS is dead, cause it really isn't. All you do by saying that is making other people believe that it's dead. And that's making it a lot harder for those like me who are trying to fight for it's existence. What's the point in that?
take care