I'm sorry if anyone thinks my comments have detracted from Yomgui's efforts. I applaud him for it and I think he's one hell of a great programmer. I'm just pesimistic about the future of MOS. I'd really like to see it thrive as an alternative OS but the tangents taken by the MOS dev team seem truly crazy at times.
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And nowhere did I dispute that Firewire is superior to USB2.0. It is obviously superior. So I'm not sure where you guys are getting that from since I've never posted such a statement. What I DO dispute is that there's any real use for Firewire on MOS since there obviously isn't a single audio/video editing package for MOS. I also pointed out that Apple is even dropping support of Firewire on several of its systems, specifically its newest Macbooks. Nobody these days really cares that Firewire is better than USB2.0. It's like the old argument about Betamax versus VHS tapes. Just because it's technically superior doesn't mean that it'll become the accepted/adopted standard demanded by us all. I've worked with a couple different news agencies and they don't care about Firewire one bit. They DO care about being able to move their data onto a laptop or workstation for editing. As long as they can move that data via DVD-R/W, USB cable or flash memory stick, they're quite happy. Firewire, or the lack of it, isn't a deal-breaker for them. The lack of any audio/video editing on a MOS box IS a deal breaker, as well as the handicap of ancient hardware. As I said earlier, just because there's a Firewire stack on MOS doesn't mean that suddenly audio/video professionals will now scramle to buy up old Macs for editing. It's outdated hardware and there's no MOS editing software anyway, so don't expect me to be thrilled with the news about MOS getting a Firewire stack. My reaction is, "So what?" Where's an application that will make use of it?
Same goes for MOS as a whole. I think it's a great OS. But until it has native apps for productiviy, I.E. a real office suite, native audio/video editing, and easy-to-use DVD/CD authoring software, it will continue to languish. What about somebody porting OpenOffice to MOS, or at least AbiWord and GnuCalc? MOS will continue to be just a toy until that happens.