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OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress
DeltaSigma writes: "Michael Phipps, of the OpenBeos team, recently hosted a public Q&A Session where many of the public musings over a completely new open source operating system have been addressed. The answer to all the 'is there room in the market?' questions was answered in a way: 'We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job.' Perhaps more /.ers could keep this in mind ..."
Ummm, an IRC log is just a text file. You're probably viewing it in a Windows text editor, which would cause the line breaks not to translate properly. Try viewing the file in Wordpad, or better yet, VIM.
As an aside, just because everyone you know uses AIM doesn't necessary mean that the rest of the world does. The reason it's not posted in an AOL IM log format is because the Q&A took place on IRC, not on AOL.
Spurious Stephenson alert! Kudos!
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
If you have trouble reading the one linked off the front page, here's a mirror of the log in HTML.
http://www.kupoflux.com/tmp/beoslog.php
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OpenBeOS founder Gene Kan has taken his own life. He was also one of the designers of GNUtella. Very strange. More information availble in this Wired article for all the details. I must say, Drano is one hell of a way to check out.
Be is dead and gone. Its assets were bought out by Palm earlier this year. BeOS died a horrible death along with the company and is now partially owned by Palm- who won't release it since it doesn't suit their business well. They bought it to get the development team who is now working on PalmOS.
This article is about OpenBeOS, which is currently vaporware. They don't even have a functional kernel yet. They've taken the NewOS kernel and badly maimed it... there aren't many competant kernel hackers on their team.
Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
I own two Macs: a PowerBook and a desktop. More importantly, perhaps, my parents have also used all three systems, Windows, OSX, and KDE, so I know what kinds of problems non-computer folks run into. Windows is bad. KDE and OSX have both been OK for them, with different strengths and weaknesses and no clear winner.
Aqua is so far superior to KDE or Gnome, its almost a laughing matter.
I don't see much functional difference. The biggest differences are that Aqua leaves out a lot of options, which makes it easier to use for beginners, and that Aqua has a much nicer graphical design. And Aqua and the Mac UI have their share of rough spots, too (e.g., printing, finder defaults, wireless configuration, software installers).
OS X plain works. Always. Smoothly.
OS X works very well indeed, and I heartily recommend it. But that derives not from some kind of amazingly superior engineering, but simply because Apple has a much simpler problem than Linux: they need to support only a very limited range of hardware, they get to preinstall OSX, and they have full say in what ships. Specific Linux distributions on specific hardware work just as well.
Anyone can use OS X, but your average day user cannot vi XF86Config and fix their settings.
You are comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). If you buy a PC with Linux-supported hardware and Linux pre-installed, it works just as well and just as easily as OSX.