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Last night I downloaded a version of BeOS 5
ftp://www.beforever.com/pub/beforever/freebe/BeOS4Linux.tar.gz that runs
from a disk image under Linux and found it quite interesting. It seems to
have a lot of things going for it such as SMP, multithreading and protected
memory etc, but what it doesn't seem to have is any kind of unbiased
comparison to Linux or other OS's.
After playing around with it for awhile and doing some searching all i've
come with is the conclusion that it has very advanced underpinnings and a
irrationally rabid following, but not much else. The GUI is terrible and
most of the software I came across appears to be thinly featured
freeware/shareware quality stuff. All of the material i read could say is
how advanced everything is and how reponsive everything is because it's all
so advanced.
Anyway the Linux connection is....does anyone have any real unbiased
opinions or experience on how the BeOS compares to Linux in terms of speed
and stability. I'm really curious if it's even half of what it's cracked up
to Be (pun intended)
Jason
*** In the beginning there was nothing......and it exploded ***
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