linux...OS's are done?
Collin McClendon (collin.mcclendon@yale.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:13:33 -0500
Well I found interesting his comment on how os development is
done, this is really quite wrong. I have installed beos r4 recently
and frankly I have been quite impressed. I can use linux, but it takes a
pretty steep learning curve for your average user. Beos is a unix but
does a good job of making stuff easy for those average users. If mac had
adopted this a year ago I wouldn't dislike macs quite so much. What I'm
saying is that there is a lot of room for improvement in OS's and
considering beos is younger than linux yet as far as user interface
friendliness goes its quite a bit more mature. (for the average user).
In R3 they didn't even have scsi support for the pc and lots of other
hardware and in one version they now have support for all sorts of
devices. Hmm I guess what I'm saying is that Linux is by no means done
with its own development so how can ESR say that os development is done
period? Quite a broad and erroneous statement AFAIAC.
-CMc