Linked by David Adams on Fri 27th Dec 2002 16:33 UTC, submitted by George N
Nowadays, all you hear about is Windows, MacOS X, or GNU/Linux. However, what ever happened to the good old BeOS?
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Some very good comments here, mostly the longer ones.
I use BeOS coz I don't want to be an MS/DCMA POW, I don't have the $ for Apple, & I don't have the time for endless Linux distros.
From time to time I do boot into W2K (my absolutley last MS OS), MacOS 8.1 (on Basilisk2, thanks for the memories), & RH to see whats up, but none of them keeps me wanting to stay. I have probably spent as much $ on Linux packages as W2K, so Linux is hardly cheap in $ or hrs.
When you use computers for 20 odd years, you eventually tire of never ending faddish upgrades that don't always give as much back as you lose. If BeOS doesn't radically change for a few yrs, fine by me.
Every few years, Apple screwed me over by forcing me to replace most all my apps, eventually I lost complete interest in Mac fads of the day. And the endless wait for stability, yeck, it took Apple 18yrs to get to a stable system.
MS was sweet for many yrs when I was using NT4,5 & most everyone else was on the 16bit crap, now its all about eye candy and control. But some of the apps are very good, no doubt about that. If W2K could be made to look & feel more like BeOS, I might just accept that, but I won't go to XP registration.
Linux will always be a part of my professional life since someone else will set it up, but I would rather leave it behind, when I go home.
BeOS gives me just enough style, power cmd line, and stability. I will wait and see about Zeta, OBOS.
I could go on but....