Re: [OT] - Guess I'd better download the Linux version of EU!
Hello everyone!
>Well, I had to tell somebody (I'll tell my wife but she'll look at me
>and say "that's nice dear"). I just got RedHat Linux 9 up and running
>on my machine!
Congrats! rh9 wasn't the *best* distro to install, imho, but
nevertheless you've officially begun your exodus out of the Evil Empire
of His Hindness Emporer Bill. I'm sure that soon, you'll be kicking
yourself for not making the move to *nix sooner. Let's not start a war
here, but, again, in MY opinion, as soon as you learn the ropes in Red
Hat, you should consider a better distribution, like my favorite,
Mandrake. If you want to hear more about my problems with Red Hat,
please feel free to email me privately (you'll find that many *nix
devotees are not only dedicated to *nix in general, but to a particular
distribution) in order to avoid a distro war in a Euphoria list. But,
I found this interesting reading ... http://techupdate.zdnet.com/
techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2871663,00.html.
>Network card is working, monitor is working (with some minor
tweaking),
>printer is working, CD Rom is working, mouse is
>working...wait....DANG-IT! forgot about the CD burner. Oh well, back
to
> www.linux.org!
Super! My experience with Red Hat has been that I've gotten everything
to work except my printer, and sound card. (I've only recently gotten
a CD burner, so I can't say much about that one way or the other.)
Mandrake has gotten all of that plus the sound card, but I've never
gotten my printer -- Lexmark Z23 -- to work under Linux, even though I
bought it specifically because it said "Linux compatible" on the box.
They provide a Linux driver from their website, but it's an absolute
train wreck. Moral: all that has penguin on box isn't gold.
Okay, now to begin a swerve back on topic. lol 
I've managed to
install BeOS on my system, and I have it working quite well, including
an ability to use my Lucent winmodem. For those who aren't aware of
what BeOS is, the best way to describe the operating system would be to
call it one of Linux's cousins. At one point, BeOS was positioned to
attack both Windows and Linux, but this was all brought down by what
could only be called a jackassed maneuver on the part of Be, Inc. To
make a long story short, Be went under and was bought by Palm in 2001,
at which point Palm took one of the best operating systems ever created
and pitched it into the trash can.
The stories of BeOS' death, however, are greatly exaggerated. BeOS is
being resurrected on a number of fronts, both commercially (such as the
Zeta operating system) and via Open Source, such as OpenBeOS (http://
www.openbeos.org). Yes, BeOS is at the moment in critical condition,
but very slowly, it is getting better. I think that in no more than
five years, the-operating-system-formerly-known-as-BeOS will be ready
to stand on its own and compete with the big boys (Windows and Linux)
once again.
How is this on topic? Well, seeing as how BeOS is on its way back, I
would once again like to suggest a Euphoria port to BeOS. The
internals of BeOS are quite similar to Linux, so a port from the Linux
or BSD versions of Euphoria should not be all that difficult.
Unfortunately, I frankly do not have the knowledge necessary to do it.
And because the BeAPI is C++, it would be difficult to wrap, but not
impossible. I suppose that if no one takes an interest in a BeOS port
of Euphoria, I could buy the source code and give it a try myself, but
it would take quite a while, as I would have to build up the knowledge
of C necessary just to understand Mr. Craig's code, to say nothing of
porting it.
Thanks for putting up with the BeOS plug.
Travis W. Beaty
Osage, Iowa.
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