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To: ColtonGang who wrote (12824)	9/19/2000 10:50:35 AM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 24256

From Yahoo thread........Q. and A. on BeOS by: beforetoday 9/19/00 10:39 am Msg: 17896 of 17897 Q. Why are you so captivated by the BeOS? On the surface, my answer to this is not much different from anybody else's. Fast and responsive, elegant and logical UI, the power of the bash shell, SMP-aware, great multitasking, pervasive multithreading, database-like 64-bit fully journaled filesystem, etc. All the nipple-stiffening geek toys. But more philosophically, BeOS is one of the few places in the technology world where I see true innovation happening. People banded together looking at the OS world and asking, "Will it always be this way?" Are we really stuck with Windows forever? There's got to be a better way. In my mind, Linux is not that path. What I see in Linux is a lot of 25-year-old computing habits being reproduced. The essential metaphors of Linux are old-style Unix, Windows emulation, and copy-catting of existing software for other platforms. I don't see a lot of innovation going on there. The whole idea of BeOS is about introducing new computing paradigms, new ways of thinking about applications, new ways to eke more performance out of existing hardware. BeOS has spoiled me rotten. I don't have a lot of patience of other operating systems anymore. lebuzz.com (try BeOS on CD for $9.45 w/free shipping)