On 19 Dec 2005 12:27:24 GMT, "The U.S. Constitution"
IMO, it will acquire about the same foothold as any one of say the
top 25 Linux distros would, as at that point, it will not be much
more
than equatable to a Linux distro (to the masses) that has been
streamlined for audio and video processing with low OS overhead
activity.
Actually, people pay money for it now, as well as in the past. How many
Linux distros can make that claim?
Excellent point. It has interesting, rather shining implications
(your point). I would rather have it as an open source product though
as far as what may be coming our way...
I can still remember one of my five OS machines that I booted from
XOSL into one major cooly configured machine!
I remember giving a BeOS demo at school, for the IT class I was in. I had
lots of movies, animations, videos, demos, games, etc. running at full
speed, with no slowdown in the user interface.
Then I pulled the plug. Everyone said "Ohhhhhhh!".
I had the desktop back up in 17 seconds.
My professor said, "Yes, but where are the movies?"
; )
XOSL is pretty cool, and would be nice if it got an update as well.
I think IIRC that it runs on my SATA drive, but has problems pointing
to one when starting from an PATA drive.
Really cool boot loader though. I could picture it with a real nice
startup screen capacity... the rest is already pretty cool.
Haiku has Opentracker (BeOS's desktop) running on their own kernel, now.
It's just a matter of time... They are aiming for swapping out parts of
Zeta, one at a time, with their open source code. This will insure total
compatibility.
Check out Befree, too. They've changed their name, but it's essentially a
big makeover for Linux using BeOS design principles.
http://www.bedoper.com/bedoper has a link to their new site, and
http://www.BeOSnews.com has a brief article on their name change.
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