The closest OS to BeOS out there is eComStation. It has many of the features that BeOS has that Linux doesn't:
A consistent, easy-to-use and powerful GUI
Strong multimedia support
Runs fast on low-end hardware, and blazingly fast on high-end hardware
A friendly, close community that welcomes new users
In addition, OS/2 has features that BeOS doesn't:
Great application support, namely DOS, Windows (including 32-bit Windows apps), OS/2, and even many Linux apps.
Great hardware support (this was BeOS biggest problem).
It's still being sold, marketed, and supported.
This last item brings me to eComStation, an OEM version of OS/2 that's effectively what OS/2 Warp 5 would be. I invite all BeOS users to check out eComStation. You'll be surprised what you find.
Actually, most software is designed for two. Mac users with one-button mice use a control-click where PC users would use the 2nd mouse button.
As for five-button mice, most Windows apps are "designed" for that either. But the mouse driver and the OS allow for remapping the additional buttons to other functions. The Mac can do the same.
I don't understad your reasoning... how would NVidia releasing their drivers, for their cards, which are obviously very hardware specific (we ARE talking about drivers here) be beneficial to ATI (whose hardware is totally different) ?
Oh, that's easy. It's obvious you don't do a lot of driver programming. Sure, there's lots of hardware-specific code in the driver, but there's also lots of code that isn't. I can't speak on video drivers, but for audio drivers that's certainly true. I know a lot of OS/2 drivers that can't handle high-speed audio properly because their buffer management code is poorly designed. If a particular vendor decided to write a better buffer manager, releasing that code to the public would allow the competitors to go, "Aha! So that's how you're supposed to do it!".
Given the poor state of Linux documentation (way worse than OS/2 even), it wouldn't surprise me the least to find plenty of situations where the proper way to implement a certain feature is non-obvious. Given that, I can easily see how NVidia may have discovered a few tricks that they don't want their competitors to have.
No matter how badly a company wants to, they can't violate child labor laws. Some things a company isn't allowed to do, even if they pay for it. I don't know if excessive searches at a company are a violation of law (the Constitution tends to apply more to the government than to private companies).
So you're saying that every business should develop the software they need, instead of buying it from someone else, and then release it to the public, so that their competitors can use the same software without having to make the same R&D investment?
Frankly, I don't see what's so unnatural about creating something and then selling it. That sounds pretty natural to me.
Yes, but there's no sustainability in selling something that's free. A company can sell the software, but then any customer can turn around and give it away to anyone else. After a while, no one will be buying the software because they can get it for free from somewhere else. This is exactly the situation we have in the Far East, where people can walk into any software shop and buy a copy of Windows for $5.
Enterprise rollouts of software almost always require a support contract, no matter how good the code is to begin with.
But the average end-user doesn't care about enterprise software, so this business model doesn't work for most software.
In addition, customizations can be contracted as well. For example, RMS made money for years selling improvements to emacs. The improvements were open-source, but a company paid for them because the company wanted them. They paid the original developer to do it so that
Yes, but I don't see that happening on a large scale. Sure, anyone can point to an example or two of something like this happening, but it pales in comparison to the tens of thousands of software companies creating closed-source software and selling it directly.
OS/2 has always had excellent DOS emulation support, way better than any version of Windows has ever had. I remember running two copies of Wing Commander at the same time, each in its own window.
There are two versions of OS/2 available now, IBM's (called the Convenience Pack), and eComStation. eCS is better choice for the end-user. And thanks to Project Odin and VirtualPC for OS/2, you can also run tons of Windows software (more than Wine will). Plus, lots of Linux apps have been ported to OS/2, like XFree86, Gimp, Apache, and so on. In fact, I think OS/2 now runs more apps than any other OS. Plus, it makes a great desktop OS with it's powerful and easy-to-use WorkPlace Shell user interface.
Since you can't sell open-source software, it's very difficult to make money developing it. Sure, you could give away the software for free and sell support, but that only works if your software is so hard to use that it NEEDS support. If your software is stable, well-documented, and easy-to-use, why would you pay for a support contract?
Moderators: please don't mod me down as a troll, because I honestly believe what I wrote. Instead, how about proving me wrong in a reply?
Intelligent mode was created solely to handle slow 8088 computers that couldn't keep up with MIDI's timing demands. It has limitations of its own that make it undesireable if it can be avoided.
The problem with Linux is that it doesn't have a true multimedia subsystem that handles timing issues. OS/2 has something like this, and its MPU-401 driver is rock-solid and has dead-on timing. Check it out.
I agree completely. The supposed cost differences between Macs and PCs (and depending on who you ask, Macs either cost more or less than PCs) can't possibly be of concern to someone considering professional audio. After all, how much is his time worth? If he thinks he's going to save time and money (and in his business, time IS money) by forgoing Macs in favor of some cheapo PC running Linux, then he's got MUCH bigger problems.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but the first passage you quote is talking about self-defense. That is, those are instructions on what to do if someone invades your homeland.
As for Muslims protesting OBL in the streets, I have to admit that I'm disappointed myself. Remember, most of the people living in the Mid-east are ignorant by our standards, and so they just like to get angry a lot, even if it's stupid (imagine a country full of rednecks).
When a nuclear plant or an airplane fail, people usually die. I've never heard of that happening when an AMD CPU fails.
Yes, the P4's thermal throttle is very nice, but is it worth dancing with the Devil? Not to me. That's why I'm building a dual Athlon system now (as an upgrade from my 233MHz Pentium Pro!)
I, too, am building a dual 1.2G system. If these 1800's run at 1.53 GHz, then each CPU is only 27.5% faster, so it's not like you're really missing out.
Thanks for the tip on the Tiger MP. I bought high-quality memory, so it should work (when it arrives).
This is starting to get off-topic, but yes, it is definitely OS/2. It's basically's IBM's updated OS/2, which is called the "Convenience Pack" but is really OS/2 Warp 5, with various cosmetic changes, minor enhancements, and lots of third-party applications included.
Yes, it's been supported and updated all this time. If you're interested in the latest version, check out eComStation. It has excellent hardware support, and thanks to Odin and the soon-to-be-releasedVirtual PC for OS/2, it can also run almost every Windows application (in some cases, apps that Wine can't run).
I'm continually surprised by people who don't understand that email is not just another way to send mail. There are many differences between email and snail mail that everyone needs to understand, especially you, it seems.
I never send email to my elected officials. I know it does not get the same consideration that snail mail does, so I don't waste my time with it. Every time I want to tell my representative something, I send a real letter, on paper, in an envelope, with a stamp.
How many times do you need to be told that before you understand?!?!!?!? Yes, some representatives do respond well to email, but so what?!?!?! How much more difficult is it to print out your letter and put it in an envelope?
Like it or not, many people from working class backgrounds have trouble getting sufficient loans
How can an 18-year-old have bad credit??? Every 18-year-old I've ever known has always been inundated with credit applications, regardless of his background. Teenagers can't do anything that will ruin their credit.
It's not terrorism because no one was terrorized by it. The attack on September 11 affected everyone in the country very deeply. The releasing of 10,000 minks just affected one company. That's not the kind of crime that warrants changing the Constitution.
You're comparing apples and oranges (pun not intended). You're talking about applications, but the previous poster was talking about drivers. It's normal for drivers to be more sensitive than applictions to the OS version.
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- A consistent, easy-to-use and powerful GUI
- Strong multimedia support
- Runs fast on low-end hardware, and blazingly fast on high-end hardware
- A friendly, close community that welcomes new users
In addition, OS/2 has features that BeOS doesn't:- Great application support, namely DOS, Windows (including 32-bit Windows apps), OS/2, and even many Linux apps.
- Great hardware support (this was BeOS biggest problem).
- It's still being sold, marketed, and supported.
This last item brings me to eComStation, an OEM version of OS/2 that's effectively what OS/2 Warp 5 would be. I invite all BeOS users to check out eComStation. You'll be surprised what you find.As for five-button mice, most Windows apps are "designed" for that either. But the mouse driver and the OS allow for remapping the additional buttons to other functions. The Mac can do the same.
Oh, that's easy. It's obvious you don't do a lot of driver programming. Sure, there's lots of hardware-specific code in the driver, but there's also lots of code that isn't. I can't speak on video drivers, but for audio drivers that's certainly true. I know a lot of OS/2 drivers that can't handle high-speed audio properly because their buffer management code is poorly designed. If a particular vendor decided to write a better buffer manager, releasing that code to the public would allow the competitors to go, "Aha! So that's how you're supposed to do it!".
Given the poor state of Linux documentation (way worse than OS/2 even), it wouldn't surprise me the least to find plenty of situations where the proper way to implement a certain feature is non-obvious. Given that, I can easily see how NVidia may have discovered a few tricks that they don't want their competitors to have.
No matter how badly a company wants to, they can't violate child labor laws. Some things a company isn't allowed to do, even if they pay for it. I don't know if excessive searches at a company are a violation of law (the Constitution tends to apply more to the government than to private companies).
Frankly, I don't see what's so unnatural about creating something and then selling it. That sounds pretty natural to me.
Yes, but there's no sustainability in selling something that's free. A company can sell the software, but then any customer can turn around and give it away to anyone else. After a while, no one will be buying the software because they can get it for free from somewhere else. This is exactly the situation we have in the Far East, where people can walk into any software shop and buy a copy of Windows for $5.
But the average end-user doesn't care about enterprise software, so this business model doesn't work for most software.
In addition, customizations can be contracted as well. For example, RMS made money for years selling improvements to emacs. The improvements were open-source, but a company paid for them because the company wanted them. They paid the original developer to do it so that
Yes, but I don't see that happening on a large scale. Sure, anyone can point to an example or two of something like this happening, but it pales in comparison to the tens of thousands of software companies creating closed-source software and selling it directly.
I'd love to be able to do that, except:
2001-10-11 21:09:10 Easy cross-platform email encryption? (askslashdot,encryption) (rejected)
For more information on running DOS games under OS/2, see http://www.os2world.com/games/.
There are two versions of OS/2 available now, IBM's (called the Convenience Pack), and eComStation. eCS is better choice for the end-user. And thanks to Project Odin and VirtualPC for OS/2, you can also run tons of Windows software (more than Wine will). Plus, lots of Linux apps have been ported to OS/2, like XFree86, Gimp, Apache, and so on. In fact, I think OS/2 now runs more apps than any other OS. Plus, it makes a great desktop OS with it's powerful and easy-to-use WorkPlace Shell user interface.
Moderators: please don't mod me down as a troll, because I honestly believe what I wrote. Instead, how about proving me wrong in a reply?
Are you sure? I find it much more likely that he didn't know aluminium is the British spelling. I certainly didn't know.
The problem with Linux is that it doesn't have a true multimedia subsystem that handles timing issues. OS/2 has something like this, and its MPU-401 driver is rock-solid and has dead-on timing. Check it out.
Upgrading a Tivo is nowhere that simple, and some people experience problems after an upgrade that non-upgraders never have.
I agree completely. The supposed cost differences between Macs and PCs (and depending on who you ask, Macs either cost more or less than PCs) can't possibly be of concern to someone considering professional audio. After all, how much is his time worth? If he thinks he's going to save time and money (and in his business, time IS money) by forgoing Macs in favor of some cheapo PC running Linux, then he's got MUCH bigger problems.
Why would you want to talk to anyone that dumb? In fact, I would simply add a third option, "Press 1 if your I.Q. is less than 80."
As for Muslims protesting OBL in the streets, I have to admit that I'm disappointed myself. Remember, most of the people living in the Mid-east are ignorant by our standards, and so they just like to get angry a lot, even if it's stupid (imagine a country full of rednecks).
Yes, the P4's thermal throttle is very nice, but is it worth dancing with the Devil? Not to me. That's why I'm building a dual Athlon system now (as an upgrade from my 233MHz Pentium Pro!)
Well, that's true of all software that isn't public domain. It's even true of GPL and BSD0license software.
Thanks for the tip on the Tiger MP. I bought high-quality memory, so it should work (when it arrives).
This is starting to get off-topic, but yes, it is definitely OS/2. It's basically's IBM's updated OS/2, which is called the "Convenience Pack" but is really OS/2 Warp 5, with various cosmetic changes, minor enhancements, and lots of third-party applications included.
Yes, it's been supported and updated all this time. If you're interested in the latest version, check out eComStation. It has excellent hardware support, and thanks to Odin and the soon-to-be-releasedVirtual PC for OS/2, it can also run almost every Windows application (in some cases, apps that Wine can't run).
I never send email to my elected officials. I know it does not get the same consideration that snail mail does, so I don't waste my time with it. Every time I want to tell my representative something, I send a real letter, on paper, in an envelope, with a stamp.
How many times do you need to be told that before you understand?!?!!?!? Yes, some representatives do respond well to email, but so what?!?!?! How much more difficult is it to print out your letter and put it in an envelope?
Wake up and smell the coffee, buddy.
How can an 18-year-old have bad credit??? Every 18-year-old I've ever known has always been inundated with credit applications, regardless of his background. Teenagers can't do anything that will ruin their credit.
It's not terrorism because no one was terrorized by it. The attack on September 11 affected everyone in the country very deeply. The releasing of 10,000 minks just affected one company. That's not the kind of crime that warrants changing the Constitution.
You're comparing apples and oranges (pun not intended). You're talking about applications, but the previous poster was talking about drivers. It's normal for drivers to be more sensitive than applictions to the OS version.