I would like to thank everyone for your support this 1,5 years after the OSNews relaunch on August 2001. I worked really hard all that time, designed and coded OSNews, writting a huge number of articles etc. I brought OSNews from 700 impressions per day to 92,000 per day, for last month. But this is exactly what will also make me leave my baby (OSNews :). Too much work.Being a part of a huge site, is not easy. It is not something you can do it in your spare time anymore. Sending a trackload of emails to companies or other individuals daily, being the webmaster, the co-moderator in the forums, the main editor who needs to collect news every day and even expected to write 1-3 big articles per week… OSNews takes 90% of my time everyday, it feels like a real job. But when a hobby (I was never meant to be paid for any of my work here) becomes a real “job”, it stops being a pleasure exactly.
Being big, it means that companies like SGI, Sun, Red Hat, Apple to name a few, are expecting certain articles (reviews, interviews etc) at certain times from us. This adds to my stress, because I have to do something “now” and not when I might feel like doing so.
[Explanation (it seems necessary as people misunderstood the above paragraph): The articles are decided and written by me, but to write some of the articles, I need to have some review loaned hardware. When company “A” sends me over a $X,000 or even a $XX,000 machine for a review, they expect me to have the machine back in a week, for example. This gives me a “window” of one week or so to learn the whole system and write the article (while at the same time I have a backlog of other articles and other responsibilities). And all that adds up to my stress. It is not that “they” decide for the content. I don’t ‘take crap’ from any company, at least I am well known for that. :D]
And the fact that some people do not appreciate all this work I have put into, to deliver something fresh on the web, well it doesn’t help the situation.
The main reason why I am leaving is because I need more time for myself. The last 12 months I had no time to do anything else other than OSNews stuff. I want to read, watch… TV, go outside more, have more time with my husband, plan to have a baby in the family for the future and other very simple pleasures like these.
I will be “working” full time on OSNews as I always had until December 12th, then for a month I will keep my work to a minimal and after that time I will keep my partiticipation to OSNews to not more than 5-6 hours per month (today, it can varry from 10 to 15 hours per day). I will still might be sending 1-2 articles per month for publication as a contributing editor, but I won’t be doing anything more than that. In fact, I have promised some articles to 2-3 companies for the future, so I will be doing these when the right time comes even if I won’t be here full time. A promise is a promise. 🙂
I hope that OSNews will continue to have the same rate of daily updates in the future, as David Adams, owner of OSNews.com, and the contributing writers will be taking over the maintenance of the site.
Again, thank you all for your support all this time! I would like to thank also David Adams and Jon Jensen, who gave me the opportunity to ressurect OSNews in the first place, supporting me and working with me all this time. It has been a great ride! 🙂
Oh please guys………
it’s fine, eugenia did a good job, but please, stop all that bs.
You’ve put in a huge amount of work in the past few years on both BeNews and OSNews. Here’s to a well deserved break.
I’ll really miss reading your daily articles though. OSNews, under your management, has become one of the few sites I read daily. Your insight has contributed greatly to my use and enjoyment of both Linux and BeOS.
Best of luck to you and JBQ!
Thanks,
Adam
I hope that you will be able to be well with your choice and that you will be able to fill the emptiness of such a suddent focus shift.
Take care of yourself. Happy sking, snow seems to be good this year on Alpes’ mountains.
I know how you feel. My boss has been out for almost a year for stress. Some blame me. hehehe.
I hope you will be able to continue only a few hours each week and keep Osnews going or maybe get some help. Maybe you could just be the big wig in charge of good answers?
Thanks for the support in the computing world and all the good answers and news.
Enjoy life first! Like the country song say’s,
“This ain’t no practice life..”
I have truly enjoyed your articles here at OSnews(and BeNews as well) Thanks for all your hard work,hopefully you will spend some of that spare time porting some more great games and apps to BeOS,hint,hint!In case you havent noticed BeBits is fast becoming a wasteland of little “hello world”apps and stuff only the authors of the apps could possibly have any use for.we could use your talent and imagination if you have any spare time!
I just wanted to whole-heartedly thank you for all the time you’ve put into OSNews. Since you took it over it became one of my favorite web sites, one of three I would read daily. I’ll be sad to see you (mostly) leave, but I do understand about the more important things in live. I wish both you, your husband and forthcoming family all the very best for the future.
We’ll miss you.
This is the first site I head for each day, and it is your content that makes it so interesting – even when I’m the recipient of your fire and brimstone for “kneejerk reaction”
Good luck.
Thank you for your efforts on OSnews. Tens of thousands of people appreciate your work, and I am one of them – OSnews is the first site that I read every day (for more than a year now). Good luck in whatever you choose to do next.
I started visiting OSNews regulary after u left Benews.
I was said when u left and even sadder now but I just hope u won’t forget your loyal fans from the BeOS community.
Have fun and lots of wishes, luck and love to you and JB.
Kay.
A big thanx anyway. U have done a tremondous work!
Good luck everywhere you will go Eugenia.
you made osnews the greatest news site.. thank you very much
i hope that you will take that opportunity to enjoy your life.
i wish the next maintainer all the best. it’s not easy to catch up what eugenia has done for osnews
-lx3hf
I discovered OSNews just some months ago and have since then been one of your daily visitors. I enjoy using a particular OS the most but find it very interesting to read about the others too. It shows how much work you have put in and I was actually wondering where you found the time.
Best wishes and thanks from one of your Swedish fans!
It might sound dull, but I will just throw in another cheer for the heart and soul of my favorite geek-site, haven’t been here really long, but I have enjoyed the reviews and the way you silence upstart people who want to bash something blindly (like Luna, oh wait, I hate that too 🙂
Thank you for all your hard work. And a woman in computers too!! Wow!
Seriously, it’s a brilliant site. One I now read every day.
With all those deluded fanatical RISC apple ppl out there its going to suck not having u on my side
..
U were on MY side werent u Eugenia?
Thanks for your awesome work.. u helped the web progress (Can man it can get boring these days).
Glenn Sweeney
….so you can get all these hundreds and hundreds of thank-you letters!
Plus one more!
Just re-discovered your site a few weeks ago, and started visiting daily. Very, very nice site! Lots of opportunity for interaction, debate, argument, opinions, and all that….
…also noticed your byline on almost all the articles! We’ll miss you!
–Chuck
Since the day a friend showed me this site I have checked it every day. (Often many times that same day) The aritcles are always interesting and well written, ( I especially like any pertaining to BeOS
) I couldn’t say enough good things about this site to do it justice. So I will just say, Thank you for all your hard work. It has been appreciated, at least by me.
It was a pleasure to read you… here and on benews.com before. Good luck to you.
Spend time with the baby forget us!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please!
I don’t have anything to say that anyone else hasn’t said before me, more elegantly, but I think you have done a great job at OSNews, as well as everyone who contributes to the site. I hope it continues getting better even after you leave, and that you enjoy your free time.
Pat
mean jean please don’t leave us!
Eugenia your work will be remembered! I will sure miss your articles on osnews. whatever you do – have fun and take your time.
BTW: happy skiing in france (ski or board?)
regards,
florian
Thanks for a good overall OS site. I come here almost daily, I think you have done a great job, good luck with whatever you plan to do.
I’m sorry you are leaving. Hope you will be still around here…
Eugenia-
Somehow I found this website, and have been hooked ever since. You introduced me to OpenBeOS when I didn’t even know what BeOS was, and I am a better computer junkie because of it. I never knew there were so many geeks out there like me who loved OS’s more than the practical programs! Your perfect administration of this site (and your fantastic presence in the forums) will be very missed, as I’m sure you can tell from all of these comments. I will look forward every month to your articles when you get a chance to write them! Thank you!
~Sanford Armstrong
Thank you very much for your great articles, Eugenia. Really enjoyed (most of) them. Hope you find time to write more some other day. Have fun and take care.
Once in a lifetime chances doesn’t come often, I think OSnews is one of those..
But it’s been great reading OSnews ! Thank You !
Best regards,
Ville
Well, as I have been a poster here on numerous occasions, I suppose I should leave my thank you’s as well. Osnews has been one of my favorite sites for quite some time, and I definitely appreciate the time and effort that was put into it. Thank you and I wish the best of luck to you…
-dag
Hi Eugenia,
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciated your work. I strongly how you’re felling about this. I worked on a website I created and made grow for 2 years and at the end it was just too much and not enough time. And no “real” life anymore. So I had to stop too. I think this situation is going to be more and more common in the future. When hobby websites/projects become too big it’s just impossible to cope with it.
Good luck for the rest.
Maybe you should reconsider living, take vacation, and then decide.
Thank you
cezary
I can’t believe you are leaving! I’ve been a fan of you since… well I don’t remember quite well
, but around BeOS 5 launch I guess.
I’ve read a whole lot of your articles check OSNews and wherever your stuff shows up!
I love them all.
I really hope you come around from time to time, your work and dedication is something don’t abound this days.
I heartily wish you the best luck in everything.
Don’t forgett about us!
LOVE!
hey Eugenia,
from another OS fanatic: thanks for everything you’ve done to create this very cool and useful site. i hope you’ll continue to be involved with it, but i understand what it is to have a hobby turn into a career – not much fun, esp. if you’re not getting paid well for it.
good luck in all things, and BeOS is still the best
Mike in Seattle
the postings, comments, etc. from you.
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good luck to you for the Future…
i wish you a good luck
and hope you’ll be back there sometimes.
Thanks for all.
I’ve been osnews.com visitor since the days of 600 hits and osnews became my first gateway to the different OS-related information news.
You’ve brought some personality to this site, always involved in both nice and not so nice, or even quite controversial flame-wars in the recent past, but anyway, I wish you the best luck in whatever next endavours you are to tackle.
Thank you for all the great articles that you’ve provided to OSNews. And to create a good reference site of information.
I just hope that the OSnews can continue to be the reference that it has always been.
Thank you once more.
Good luck to your next projects.
Paulo Pinto
Just don’t go, ok?
We hope to hear from you again. Come this summer to Spain, enjoy our beachs and gastronomy, relax, think and come back to OSnews!!!
Thanks for the great site, may your legacy live on
You have moved OSNews from something I visited once a week to the first site I check each day. Superior to /.
I wish you all the luck in the future. <pats Eugenia on the back>
Keep on having way too much fun.
Glad to here you have decided to regain you freeedom. Sorry to see you go, but you will be happier. I had a similar situation with my business, which started as a hobby. I did not plan to do it, but for a few years , and 14 years later I walked away. I did it 24/7, with less then a total of 40 days off. It has been 5 months now, since I went back to being a bum, and I am sure glad the routine is over. We will always have projects, but it is nice to be able to say when and where. Take care of yourself and enjoy having your life back–Dwight
Thx Eugenia for beeing that professional and fanatic for years. You will be missed all over the world. All the best for your future and some warm greez from Germany: choulth
Eugenia,
I’m very sorry to hear you’re leaving. I just want to thank you for all that time you spent making OSNews.com a legendary website with a legend controlling it.
I trust that OSNews.com will stay as great as it is and deserves to be (will it? Cuz now we have to live without you jumping around everywhere…), but anyway, good luck on your “future journey” even now your baby is adopted by others.
Don’t leave forever and return sometimes to let us know how you’re doing. Thanks again.
Eddy
Thanks a lot Eugenia for your service. we learnt a lot.
Thanks for running this page for all that time, i’ve been following your news since the Benews days…hope to see more of your articles in the future
We’ll miss ya. Great job on the site, it’s one of the best on the ‘net.
Look at all these sappy comments. ;-P
I have enjoyed your work over the years even when I disagreed. After all there is nothing like a good flame war with Eugenia 😉
Best wishes and God bless.
Zaranthos
http://www.neonplasma.com
hi Eugenia !
thank u for your work at this site !
i love our great articles, and iam a little bit sad,
but i can absolutely understand your reasons
sorry my english…
greetings from europe
cold,cold vienna (austria)
simon
Thanks Eugenia for your hard work. I’m a big fan of this site, it provides an excellent and diverse mix of articles. For instance I didn’t know that AmigaOS was even alive until I came here. Even the talkbalks are refreshing – your readers are individually biased, but collectively they are not 90%+ pro- or anti-Microsoft like the other sites.
Best of luck. I hope someone comes along to take up the slack at osnews.com… I don’t want to go back to the “famous high volume pro-Linux club/effect/site”.
….:(((( The best damn site on the net, with the best girl running it, and no more……..
Anyway, best of luck to you and your (future) kid!
Dear Eugenia,
I would like to express my gratitude for all the things you have done for the “diverse OS community”.
Whilst I never agreed with all of your opinions or the sometimes brunt way you approached things – I believe your contribution to the promotion of alternative OSs will have a lasting effect.
I remember all those e-mails, the few phone calls and that meeting we had when we were innocent enought to believe that BeOS had a future. I still have all the code for those OpenGL games (Quake, HexenII, SpaceTripper etc) and screensavers stored on ZIP disks somewhere from the time of the “BeOS 6” beta programme.
Occasionally I look at them and feel regret. My “BeOS only and always only” twin celeron BP6 is now living as a WinXP machine for Office use and IMAP e-mail serving to my home network.
Just for interest my home system (all WiFi networked) is…
Celeron 2×433 BP6 server with ADSL router and 802.11 access point (WinXP Pro)
Silent (quietpc.co.uk) Celeron 1.3GHz Cubase music workstation (WinXP Pro)
Intel PIII 400 workstation for my girlfriend (WinXP home)
Mobile PIII 900 Samsung Q10 notebook for girlfriend (WinXP Pro)
Apple iBook 800Mhz (MacOS 10.2.2) for me.
At least I try to rebel, but it really is very hard now that MS has produced a very good OS. All the reasons that I started using (and loving) BeOS seem to have faded away. And that is the reason that I decided to bail out. The MS monopoly had justified its existance by becoming good. My iBook is beautiful but MacOS X is no more stable and no quicker than WinXP. BeOS was more stable (I never torched it despite multiple developer sessions with unstable code and beta drivers) and quicker but was incomplete. Linux is awful as a desktop OS – period. What other OSs are there for most users? Solaris, BlueOS, SkyOS etc etc – none that make the grade except MacOS and even that struggles .
I’d like to say I understand. My BeOS coding sessions used to eat half the night away and it put a strain on several relationships. Eventually I found “Miss Right” and had to prioritize. No longer would I say “I’ll be up in a minute” late at night only to get to bed at 4am.
I wish you and JBQ all the best for the future and I encourage you to NOT have a change of heart.
Richard Shepherd (ex BeOS coder and current happy man)
I have been reading this site for the past few months after my father mentioned it. I really enjoy it. Thanks Eugenia for making it what it is!!
You were a breath of fresh air in the tech reporting industry. You will be missed.
I guess some of the rest of us might have to get off our lazy butts and write an article or two now. It was so much easier when you did it all for us.
I’m a somewhat regular reader of this site, and I really have enjoyed your input in the articles and discussions.
I just want to share, I congratulate you for (if I understand you right) making the decision to unplug more from the online world in order to have a deeper relationship with the real world.
Best wishes for the journey ahead.
Thanks for all the hard work and TLC.
Thanks for all your hard work on this site, and all the BeOS things you have done in the past.
It’s people like you that make the web such a great community.
Good luck in all you do in future. Hope your family plans work out: i’ve recently become a father and it’s made me very happy.
Eugenia,
I must say that you are a very unique lady. Your willingness to post news for all of us OS junkies has been greatly appreciated by many, myself included. Enjoy your well deserved break from OSNews. I know that I am not alone is saying that you have impacted many people through your work. May your future projects bring you as much enjoyment as your articles, thoughts, and insights have given the rest of us.
Respectfully,
Jason VanDerMark
Proud BeOS User
Thanks for all the great work, and good luck!
I can say you’ve made me an os junkie, just like you
thanks, good luck.
Camilo
You should be the role model for reviewers on any facet of computing because your knowledge, skills levels & objectivity leaves all the others in the shade. You’re undoubtedly a role model to a vast number of people – let’s hear it for the women too now – for you’re a veritable icon in a field that’s still often regarded as a male province. This website has been a brilliant work & it’s a real credit to you.
A newbie with my first computer, I saw your name somewhere a couple of years ago, & I contacted you regarding getting BeOS. Later I discovered BeNews, and there was Eugenia the leading light – a very respected, very busy person – and one who’d taken time out several times to reply fully & helpfully to the typically dumb newbie questions I’d asked.
Your “web presence” was remarkable too – the reviews, the news items, the active part you played in the various BeOS forums – sometimes I wondered if you’d cloned yourself.
Then you moved on – & what a marvellous resource you crafted here, I needn’t say more, because those far more capable than me, have expressed this much better than I ever could.
I’m stunned by your farewell here. You’re such a brilliant resource in yourself, that no-one wants to accept this. Look at the responses, the tributes to your far-ranging skills – even to a marriage proposal! This site has obviously been unique – & wildly popular, showing that it really filled a need.
Hate to think you’re going – but wish for you every success & much happiness. Hope you’ll be back often though.
Shine on, Eugenia.