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MacOSX Vs BeOS ShootOut
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."
That's like organizing a fight between an opossum and a ferret.
# of jobs programming for BeOS: 0
# of jobs programming for Mac OSX: 0
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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).
*BeOS is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BeOS community when last month IDC confirmed that *BeOS accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BeOS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BeOS is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BeOS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BeOS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BeOS because *BeOS is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BeOS. As many of us are already aware, *BeOS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBeOS is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBeOS leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBeOS. How many users of BeOS Pro are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBeOS versus BeOS Pro posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 BeOS Pro users. BeOS/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of BeOS Pro posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BeOS/OS. A recent article put FreeBeOS at about 80 percent of the *BeOS market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBeOS users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBeOS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Be, Inc., abysmal sales and so on, FreeBeOS went out of business and was taken over by Palm who sell another troubled OS. Now BeOSI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BeOS has steadily declined in market share. *BeOS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BeOS is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BeOS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BeOS is dead."
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Poster has intentionally misspelled "inputting" in an attempt to provoke flames.
simply click on the link he provides in his user info
/. remind me of those assholes who ... risk everyone elses life to take the lead.
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
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.
Praise be to Allah, I have accidentally posted anonymously. Be that as it may, you can still click my user info to understand what a damned liar I am.
Bomb all you want, I'll post more.
Is that Scot Hacker is just a "Super Newbie".
I sleep with my iBook.
;)
...while I'm sleeping with your wife.