Re: Euphoria and BeOs!
At 05:27 AM 20-03-1999 , you wrote:
>Daniel Bernstein wrote:
>
>>I must tell everybody that BeOs is really great. It's the perfect mix
>>of MacOs and Linux (well, I have never used MacOs, but it "feels" what
>>I expect of a Mac). If runs very smooth. In fact, 5 minutes after
>>installing I was browsing the net with the included browser
>>(NetPositive), configuring the webserver, and the ftp & telnet daemons.
>>I dual boot to NT and can access FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions too!
>
>I installed Linux-Mandrake today, and have spent most of my time trying to
>get the devices to work. I also had a bit of trouble with partitioning the
>disk (even though I had done it before), and found out that my built-in
>video and sound cards were not supported, leaving me with a VGA desktop with
>applications sized for SVGA. Ick! I went through xf86config so many times
>I'll have nightmares about it.
>
>I ended up pulling my old video and soundcards out of storage and now almost
>everything is up and running - Iexcept for the modem, and can't find a lick
>of documentation on how install it. So I'm back on Win95 to browse the
>internet for help.
>
>Linux-Mandrake is a mix of Red Hat and the K Desktop (KDE). It's got KDE
>pre-loaded, so you don't have to mess with finding, downloading and
>installing the RPMs. The down side is that it still has the standard Linux
>install. I have higher hopes for Easy Linux, which is in beta right now.
Go get Be... it will change your life :)
The GUI is similar or superior to Windows, no cfg files (they are there,
but you'll mostly use GUI tools). The only draw back is it's limited
hardware compatibility (video and sound), but that should change soon. I
hears SciTech is releasing soon a BeOs release, that means universal video
support. For sound they already support SoundBlaster, Opti and Yamaha
chipsets.
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
[ daber at pair.com ]
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