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
