[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I said that I was interested in the idea.  I'm well aware of the short
comings.  BeOS has been a great disappoint to me.  I've pretty much given
up on it with the news that they laid off the BeOS engineers.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, mike dombrowski wrote:

> >Now, if you want to use BeOS as a server (and I might be the only 
> person
> >in the world actually interested in doing that), just use the plain 
> VGA
> >driver, and enable security for FTP, ssh, and whatever other services 
> you
> >want to run.  It is all there, and in theory, it should be nearly just 
> as
> >good as running a solaris box (I'm sure in reality it ain't nowhere as
> >stable or secure since it wasn't meant to take on solaris).
> >
> >I keep considering buying a P75 type system to use to run  BeOS as a
> >server.  But then I think, you know, BeOS is pretty much dead, and so 
> what
> >benifit would there be in trying to write server software for it, 
> which
> >they never intended for us to do anyway.
> 
> There are great reasons why people don't run BeOS as a server. It *
> can't* network. net_server runs itself into the ground with any kinda 
> load. Other than that it runs great. Running plain VGA is silly, gets 
> you nothing. Put linux on the P75 and run BeOS on what it's designed 
> for - modern, non-legacy hardware. No ISA, good GFX, >128MB ram, etc.
> 
> Mike
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