You're wrong, sir.

In fact, being Java based can be helpful to an OS:

Because Java is a type-safe language, JX is able to provide isolation between running applications without needing to use hardware memory protection. This technique, known as language-based protection means that system calls and inter-process communication in JX does not cause an address space switch, an operation which is slow on most computers.

This is from JX's page on Wikipedia. I know it *sounds* terrible, but first try to use an OS written in Java - then you can tell the world how slow it is.

KDE != Linux -> granted! How long do you think it will take to port it to Haiku? :D I hope Haiku succeeds as well, but there's a number of things here that may contribute to its implosion: 1 - it's not multi-user (yet) and I don't think it's the kind of thing that can be an after-thought - maybe in this case it can be, since it's contemplated for in the design, just not realized 2 - no WiFi - seriously? should be a top priority IMHO 3 - GCC2 - it's there for compatibility with BeOS, but who needs it still? 4 - kernel code in the hands of "relative newbies" - they're not kernel pros, so catastrophic crashes are a possibility, which makes me cringe (like blowing up on USB pendrive insertion and such) 5 - it's not attracting devs - why? it's such a cool platform! but I guess BSD/Linux already take up all the free talent in the world :| 6 - only C++ - we need Mono, Lua, Ruby,etc, etc, - with Haiku API bindings 7 - limited hardware support - I know, it can only get better, but with few devs it will take long I'm not bashing Haiku - I just think the alpha should have been out the door long, long ago. Even Linus had to push 2.6.0 before it was ready so people would pay attention to it...

Haiku != Linux. Amarok is very deeply connected to KDE/Qt APIs which are, of course, not implemented in Haiku. Although ports can be considered (Firefox is a must), maybe a player designed for Haiku's APIs would be best for Haiku at this stage, even as a showcase.

The file size limit in FAT32 volumes is 4GB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32) and not 6GB.

Totally inaccurate: depends on the hookers and blow SO MUCH.

Mea culpa, I thought you knew what I meant. Hey, this happens to me a lot here... :D

Do you know what I'm talking about? Did you see the Wave demo video? It's *real time typing* - not just a notification like "dude is typing...", it's ACTUAL typing showing on your screen as it happens. Pardon me for not believing it will scale across federated servers or even Google's own ones.

I wouldn't believe Google's ability to have real time typing notification in federated servers, or even in their own...

... which OS it ships with?

... but Visual Studio Express is actually quite good. I'm a Linux guy, and I use Komodo Edit (I do mostly "dynamic language" development now) and before that I used Eclipse for C/C++ and Java, and although Eclipse gets a lot of things right, it can't beat Visual Studio's breadth of features and simplified work-flow. Of all the things MS has done over the years, VS is hands down (IMHO) the best. They don't give it away with all the features so as to not kill the 3rd party market, but it's clear nothing out there in Win[32/64] land comes close (especially for C++ and C#).

... running the site on the laptop - with this much load now, it's a fire hazard.

Adobe Reader's flaws are more visible than Foxit's. Or do you think Foxit is perfect? It's not considered an attack vector due to its smaller user base, but rest assured it is flawed as well (MAYBE not as much).