System i Addict

Link to article.

Some of my favortite points, even thougth I still think MacOSX is just the best OS around, next to i5/OS.

“Forgotten Tech As World+Dog gets its head around Windows Vista, lets look back at an operating system that might have been a contender, very nearly becoming Apple’s next-generation OS and, but for Linux, almost certainly the key alternative to Windows in the x86 world. Ladies and gentlemen, who remembers the Be OS?”

“Indeed, the 2001 Release 5.1 was an Intel-only affair. How soon before Apple goes the same way”

“Meanwhile, a number of BeOS fans attempted to recreate the operating system from scratch, calling their work OpenBeOS and, later, Haiku. It’s hoped that one day Haiku will reach the stage where it’s entirely compatible with BeOS Release 5. There’s still some way to go, however. ”

Now I still track and read about Haiku. It’s coming along nicley, but I have to wonder if at some point we don’t start ditching OSes? Windows will be around a few more years. MacOSX is on the rise. Ubuntu is turning out to be really nice. SUSE is on a downslide alsong with Fedora, so could we just narrow it down a bit. We have blips of Amiga and others trying to make a come back but nothing substantial?