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 was not sure of what OS to use. I came from the Amiga and did not own a PC for a long time because i did have acces to those at the university. There i was mostly using the Sun workstation anyway, letting me a virgin window user in some way. Before university i was used to window 3.1 crash machine, when i was told after that window NT (only that at school) was more stable than win98 i found that comment the most funnier since i was born because i have a NT/98 ratio crash of 1:1.
Now knowing that Microsoft OS are worst with each new release i was really the ass in water when came the time to choose an OS for my research project.
-DOS = dinosaure OS (but still superior in ALL way to ALL other microsoft OS)
-win9X= no-go, because it have nitro stability.
-MacOS9= costly hardware and not much stability and not so good speed
-linux and unix's= hummmm, it was my choice for a bit of time but X is not for me.
Then i thinked BeOS. I did try it, it did meet all my criteria. I started to power user run it, then i found criteria i did not even thinked before.
Now, if i would have to change again i would also go to MacOSX .... but i keep BeOS. When i run OSX (or XP for the matter) i have that emulator reflex to search for the "frame skip" option to make it more fluid. Then you have the hardware requirement of those 2 monster. Knowing that Apple is in a eye candy war with microsoft it does not bode well in that department.
When the ISS did enter in operation i always wondered why they used x486 processor in it. Now that i manage my own big project devellopment i understand that develloping often mean sticking to a platform and use it the way it is now for all the future. BeOS is this for me.
That apply even to those that are not into the science field. Choose the OS you need NOW, not that you will need in 2 year. At the extreme i could say don't choose an OS choose an app (a bit like do not choose a console but choose the game you want to play). I code, so for me the OS is the choice item. By the way, you should all free yourself and start learning to code ... thing are VERY diferrent in that percepctive ie:OS never die.