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MacOSX Vs BeOS ShootOut

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-source dept.

Jolie writes: "After Palm purchased Be's assets, the future of BeOS became uncertain and a lot of users have left the platform. One of these users was Scot Hacker, mostly known for his 'BeOS Bible' book among other things. Scot tried to stick to Windows, then to Linux but he ended up with MacOSX. He has written a long and detailed article comparing, from the user's point of view, his beloved BeOS to his new favorite, MacOSX."

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  1. Pathetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's like organizing a fight between an opossum and a ferret.

  2. A quick comparison of BeOS to OSX... by mrroot · · Score: 0, Troll

    # of jobs programming for BeOS: 0
    # of jobs programming for Mac OSX: 0

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  3. Re:BeOS... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    One of the strengths of BeOS was that they had gotten rid of the Multi-user crap and made a nice snappy desktop minus that kind of croft but with the niceness of a Unix-style command line (Bash was the default prompt).

    It wasn't meant to be a time sharing system. Stick to Unix if you want multiple people all logged onto the same box. This is the 21st century, and it's gone the other way (single users on multiple boxes).

  4. Re:You people are tremendous assholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    simply click on the link he provides in his user info

    You can click on my link to check my user info. The only problem is that I am a damned liar, as are many loyal Slashdot readers.

    You provide NO intellectual discourse, simply diversion from the topic at hand.

    Let's try a little Gedankenexperiment. Imagine you were in a room full of idiots who were holding a fierce debate over whether Adolf Hitler had better taste in shoes than the Pope. If you shouted "Hey look, a bird!" and they all stopped arguing and looked up, which one of you was engaging in intellectual discourse? You or the mob?

    The trolls on /. remind me of those assholes who ... risk everyone elses life to take the lead.

    You know the only problem with your analogy? It's fucking weak. An attempt to make us look bad by comparing us with people who do real damage of any sort, let alone people who endanger the lives of others, is proof enough that we should keep doing exactly what we're doing. Anyone who would make such a ridiculously fallacious argument is a person who is immensely entertaining to provoke.

    I offer you a piece of advice that I've given to many a bleary-eyed MUD player right before they flunked out of life: "It's not real. It's just a game [weblog]. There are no real consequences here. Now go outside".

    Now click it and like it.