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OpenBeOs Developers Talk About Progress

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-room-for-more dept.

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 ..."

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  1. HTML version / Mirror by truffle · · Score: 3, Informative


    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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  2. Re:Does one size really fit all? by g4dget · · Score: 3, Informative
    Just wondering, but have you ever used OS X? I own a new iMac G4,

    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.