I say good job to those who made it (Score 1)

I think it was a great idea to do this. I thought that BeOS would have been an amazing operating system if they made it open source. It was great to begin with... but it didn't have much software and I knew it was never going to catch on like Linux did if the source code wasn't made available. Now finally they have made an OS in the likes of Be's vision--to have an OS built from scratch that would be extremely fast and built to take advantage of today's computing capabilities and to make it as small, clean, and efficient as possible. And the source code is made available to all.

I like Linux because with Linux people could make software to suit their needs. They had true freedom to do whatever they wanted. Now open source is catching on because people realize that they can make software to suit their needs. And now that companies are spreading the word (yes for their own benefit but at least it's letting people know about a good thing) it's becoming attractive to develop for an OS like Linux. As a result software is as good if not better than commercial stuff and it's coming out at an extremely fast rate. However a qualm of mine with Linux is that it's built "for" a 20+ year old OS and it is made to be the best UNIX system it can be, not the best operating system it can be. Therefore alot of things meant to be compatible with UNIX systems stay which shouldn't, and things which are better for the OS are not implemented because they have to stay "compatible". I loved Linux because you could do anything with it and because eventually (and now it's a reality), tons of software is coming out for it. In my opinion it's already ready for the desktop for basic tasks. I use Linux solely for everything now. The only reason I keep Win98 around is for MS Office. However now that an OS made for today's computers has been released, and it's made from scratch to be clean, fast, and efficient, AtheOS looks much more attractive in my eyes.

I don't like these comments like "oh just another OS with no software" or "it's just an Amiga-like OS". It's not Amiga! It's a new OS built from scratch with support for UNIX programs (a must because there is tons of software out there for it). And it will have lots of software coming out for it soon just because it's a promising new OS and people have the source! That's the most important thing! If you give the source, people will make stuff for it! And you cannot argue with this because look at OS most of you are using (wink wink). Getting back to what I was saying earlier, it's almost like BeOS doing it right. So stop cracking on this. I for one have been looking for this for a long time, and I think I've found it. I plan to give AtheOS a try and maybe even develop software for it. I want to see this succeed because I think it's a good piece of software that should!