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I'm so delighted to find somebody else who remembers BeOS.
by qubex 11y ago
I'm so delighted to find somebody else who remembers BeOS.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoI regularly cite it as an alternative to mainstream desktops and example of a microkernel system that performed well. Here's a post with it and a bunch of other systems with excellent properties worth copying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020
- buttershakes 11y agoI loved Beos. I still have R4 disks lying around, very nice system.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoWe were discussing microkernels vs monolithic recently with BeOS as example. Opponent believed compilation times and apps doing many file accesses (web server) should be really slow on such a system vs Linux or Windows. Did you do either of those on BeOS and alternatives? If so, what was your experience with that? Note: BeOS is a special case since the filesystem is a database. So it cant prove his point unless it has XFS or something. But still curious.