these answers are pretty much right on the money. one thing i would add is that BeOS is more similar to Windows than it is to Linux (not multiuser etc). BUT... BeOS appears to be much nicer than windows from a technical standpoint, and would make a nice windows replacement (assuming Be could overcome the "barrier to entry" posed by the 800 lb gorrilla that is Microsoft). On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, cristian wrote: > > > I tried something called BeOs and seemed to me some kind of Linux. Am > > I right ? > > Nope. BeOS includes a shell, and some (GNU??) fairly common *NIX > utilities. You can even get emacs for BeOS. All the same, BeOS is not a > Linux or UNIX operating system. It is a single user OS (which is to say > that there's very little in the way of security), and while it implements > some of POSIX, most of its software uses a different API. > > > They say it is made for multimedia. Indeed the multimedia > > facilities are nice. I don't like it because it is non-transparent > > like Windows? > > I don't follow the non-transparent thing... I didn't like it because it > was a single user OS without a working X server (at the time, one should > be working by now) and very little in the way of software I cared > about. I've heard that Be has shifted their focus to internet appliances, > and away from desktop OS's, so I haven't felt the need to pursue the OS > any further. > > > Maybe some of you tried it. Would it be possible to > > achieve the same multimedia machine using RedHat ? > > I doubt it. Be's native API is really geared toward threaded > applications, and it has a very fast windowing system. X is probably > going to bottleneck a lot of the stuff that BeOS does just to show > off. > > MSG > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -matt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Nelson Dynamics Technology, Inc. 21311 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 300, Torrance, CA 90503-5610 Voice: (310) 543-5433 FAX: (310) 543-2117 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
