--- Dal Wheeler <dwheeler@INSIGHTEK.NET> wrote:
> Hehe, I still run BEOS on one of my boxes; it's
> about the only thing that'll run reasonably on that
> runt of a machine.

I really missed the boat on that one, it looked great
but I guess at the time (IE, when it was in
production) I figured I didn't need it.

<snip...>
> Anyway, I guess it just verifies that
> the techies on this list are quite a bit more likely
> to use non-mainstream OS/webtools than the greater
> computer user population.

Sure, it's nice to be able to change something if your
OS is misbehaving. I wonder how many of those
alternate-OSers were "converts", forced to use
something else at work or school and then finding they
liked the alternative. I had to switch from Windows 95
to Redhat when I first when to University, and I
wasn't overly fond of Linux at first(I was brought up
using simple things like DOS 3 etc, and I thought of
Linux as being a bit, well, ostentatious I suppose --
so many instructions, so many options). Here it is a
few years later, and whenever I decide to code
something totally new to me, I like going with Linux
because it eliminates one source of unknowns! Couldn't
imagine it under something like ME -- it crashed my
laptop so often I'd never know if it was my program or
the OS misbehaving.


- T.C.

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