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adam and other people that don't understand.

We understand perfectly fine :-)

BeOS Was never about ruiling the world it is/was marketed towords Geeks and Multi/media enthusiests

No one said to be successful, BeOS had to be marketed to conquer the whole world. Besides, it seems geeks and multimedia enthusiests weren't all that profitable after all...

As for multimedia - does BeOS do professional audio editing - no, but it has SoundPlay that plays audio fine. Does BeOS do professional image editing (Photoshop) - no, but it does open a lot of image files. Does BeOS do professional video editing? no, again, but it can play 10 (IIRC) Quicktime movies at a same time. Does BeOS do professional 3D editing? - no, they don't even have proper OpenGL support.

So much for the multimedia market.

As Projects Linux and BeOS are about the same age

Actually, BeOS is about two to three years older than Linux. Plus, in the early years of Linux, there weren't much interest in it, unlike now.

Let me recap, BeOS Runs fast on my computer, it was easy to install.
i had no problems getting my hardware to run. It does every thing i need to do, and it does it quickly and requires almost no maintnece.

Great! You form a minority. BeOS couldn't even support a old RealTek NIC card for crying out loud (at least on my machine). Boots fast? So what? I don't mind taking a minute to boot when I can do more with the OS. That's a similar sentiment with other people I know.

Why buy another computer, when the one you already own
can do anything you need.

I want to get a new computer because I find my Duron insufficient in compiling with GCC 3.2 (I'm not really the patient kind of guy. Would BeOS make compiling faster? Another thing I do a lot is play around with Photoshop on Windows, and I wish those filters work faster. Would they be faster on BeOS? In both cases , I doubt it.

If you switched from BeOS, because it suddenly became
uncool, even though BeOS did what it needed to then you should
be using Windows and not an alternate OS.

BeOS can do what I need perfectly fine. But then I have to deal with either a browser that support less pages than Netscape 1.0, or use a browser that is less stable than a hungry agitated rodeo bull. Then there is not good image editing program. So even though I could survive with BeOS< like many others, I much rather just stick with Windows and do a lot more. After all, what's the point of having a quite boot up when you don't have anything to do after it?

Use what you need, if you need heavy graphics get your self a SGI
machine and use Irix, if you want to play games get a Gamecube.

I'm not into PC games, but my younger brother in really into games. Sure, he would call me a saint if I got him a XBOX (oh no, I mustn't, it is from M$!) or a PS2 (he isn't really into Nintendo stuff), but he doubts it would replace the PC. PC gaming is very different from console gaming, and if you think otherwise, certainly you are not a gamer.

In my experience. Linux was slow to boot, hard to configure, bloated, the multiple partitions needed for swap and data are a real pain in the ass.

1) Actually, it can be fast to boot, however none of the major distributions are fast to boot. After a great deal of configuring, I manage to get a clean 20 second boot time, faster than Windows XP.

2) Yeah, it can be hard configuring sometimes, but in my experience, distributions like SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, Lycoris, perhaps Xandros and Lindows.com (never tried both on my machine, can't say), it is pretty easy to do basic configuring. The biggest problem with configuration is with uncommon hardware - but that's a problem with BeOS anyway (at least there is some hope that you may get it to work on Linux).

May not be as easy to configure as Be OS (couldn't say, never used either side configuration tools in a long long time), but sufficient.

Open Office is slow and takes up to much hard disk.

Of course, if you are comparing with the only office suite on BeOS (to my knowlegde), KOffice is pretty much as feature-heavy (or light :-) as gobeProductive 2.0. And faster to load up (comparing with a evaluation copy of productive 2.0 and a out-of-the-box version of KOffice on Mandrake). Takes a wee more harddisk space, but I doubt you would notice the difference.

The Login is really unnessesary, having to log into root to change somthing is really anoying.

Use Lindows. For me, and a lot of people, login is very very useful. I don't want my brothers to mess up my files, read my mail, or things of that sort. As for root, it would guarentee that my 7-year-old brother wouldn't configure stuff that may be hard to revert later (e.g. fixing the resolution at something the monitor can't accept).

Besides, for Mandrake at least, when you install it, you can opt-in for a chance to have an account automatically log in upon boot time, and everytime you need the root password (e.g. installing a new RPM), it would prompt you for it.

People in OS news forms talk about how BeOS does not have any killer apps. Show me the apps they say. The basic definition of a Killer app.

Lotus 1-2-3 was an example of a killer app that made PC's day. People *need* it, and can't live without it after using it. In BeOS, except for a small unprofitable minority, there isn't a killer app.

For me, Linux's killer "app" is the fact I can configure and optimize everything the way I want it. Why? Because I like doing it.

Rajan because i know your standard reply to everything I post in here Im a zealot a fanatically commited person dedicated to BeOS.

Well, sorry to say, I'm a Linux zealot too. But I'm not blind in that regard. Be Inc. made great software, no doubt. But they weren't at all good at marketing. It doesn't matter how good the product is, with terrible (or in this case, practically no) marketing, the product is doom.

Marketing is a combination of PR, strategy and advertising. Knock one out, and it is no longer marketing. Marketing starts at the product's drawing board, not after.

BeOS is a remarkable OS, sadly I have absolutely no use for it. I had this XP laptop here running for 2 weeks, my Windows 2000 desktop accross the room has been on for more than a week, and my Linux machine is currently off, but I just offed it after 3 weeks (not enough power outlets :-). I don't need fast boot up times. That's about the only thing nice about BeOS.