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Follow-up To Critique of BeOS & Mac OS X

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-under-the-hood dept.

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.)"

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  1. Re:Here's an idea by J.D.+Hogg · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Wouldn't the logical solution be "go straight to MacOSX" as it seems perfected already and skip the Linux headache in between?"

    Next time Apple releases a new super-duper OS that requires you to buy a new Mac and renew your entire collection of software you bought with your hard-earned cash, I and my headache-making Linux box running on my PII-266 shall taunt you a second time.

  2. Re:Here's an idea by cpeterso · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple has been successfully going out of business for about 15 years.

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    cpeterso
  3. Re:For me, the most astonishing revelation ... by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 3, Funny
    and I'll finally be able to reload all my MP3's.

    Given the theory "An infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters"; with the random noise it has before formatting, the drive should already have your entire MP3 collection on it.:-\

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    "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
  4. Re:New blood is good, but OSX isn't up to snuff ye by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's another thing... Macs don't age nearly as fast as PCs do... hell, I'm still using a 3-year old 350 MHz box for professional web design

    This is a nice way of saying, "I can't upgrade my 3-year old Mac because Apple's hardware is too expensive." Right?

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    "And like that ... he's gone."
  5. There's nothing to do!! by jasonv118 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're an operating system development guy who is working on a Windows killer, don't move to OS X... there's nothing left to be done.