Follow-up To Critique of BeOS & Mac OS X

UnknownSoldier writes: "Scot Hacker has posted a great follow-up to his Tales of a BeOS Refugee entitled Reactions to Tales of a BeOS Refugee. (Hopefully everyone involved in implementing 'Linux on the Desktop' will eventually incorporate the best ideas of Be and Mac OS X for smoother usability in Linux.)"

Comments

Maybe BeOS ideas but which MacOS X ones?

[pinkpineapple]

I just spent too much time sticking to the OS X band wagon to find out that it was all marketing BS. When it comes to innovation, I wonder what can be said about OS X really.
What has brought OS X is a lickable but sluggish interface that I got tired of using because of its flashy and uncustomizable look, and its feel that is too slow even on dual cpu hardware and too big to show up on something smaller than a 22" display. Also try running a few apps together with less than 512MB. What else has been put into OS X that deserves to be cited but a NeXT reap off framework, unsuccessful because of its lack of language support (C++ library in Cocoa anyone?), a performance bottleneck not only due to its incredibly slow hardware platform (running on mythically faster CPUs) but also because of tons of layers to provide a Carbon Framework to port old apps (Carbon thread API is built on Posix threads, Yuk!) that was put together with bad and quick development (design process? what design process?!?), inexistent compatibility and no support for hardware sold more than 2 years ago (ATI Rage accel or PPC G3.)

BeOS has had a Finder database integration from the start (MS is just catching up with something similar), a UI that is clean and efficient and probably inspired from the original mac one, CLI with POSIX compatibility, one of the fastest OpenGL implementation on Desktop PC, a C++ framework easy to use and FUN to program with (I never had so much fun designing UI sw than on the BeOS.) The OS was also ported and SUPPORTED on both PPC and Intel x86.

So, if I compare the two companies, there is little thinking about which one I would like the Desktop PC to take ideas from.