Time to say goodbye.

[JoannaK]

Hi Jarruzel

I can tell you from experince.. it's quite possible to come back if other options are not your liking. Just put all that stuff in closet for now (or sell them if you'll really need the $$$). Look for altenativies and spend time with them.

Considering you don't like Linux too much there are really not so many other end-user systems to look at. About only real alternativies are Mac (OsX, that is essentially MacOs compatibility atop of BSD unix) and Windows (XP, most likely if computer is new).

So.. Have a nice vacation of all this and please let us know what you have found on your travels.

[JoannaK]

the_leander wrote:

You might want to try BeOS if you go to x86... certainly its a lot more fun than Windows ever was.

BeOS was nice, BUT:

For all fairness you have to say that BeOS is allmost as dead as AmigaOS. So if you'll use it you have to be carefull to purchase only supported hardware and to accept the fact that very little new software appear to it.

Ok. it's been dead less time than Amiga so it still have more active (and coding capable) supporters but there has been  no commercial OS release (one is rumoured to come 'soon')  of it in many years.

[JoannaK]

Amigamad: According the rumours there are also lot's of people working on updated AmigaOS and at least 2 alternative variants of it (and One of them is openrouce too).  So it's not much different.

But Beos-6 (I think 5 was last official release, one I purchased was 4.5)  is nothing to happen anyday soon. so it's a lot like AmigaOS4. So IMHO it's only fair to warn Jaruzel about this in case there is a need for having stable and supported Os right now.

Beos is nice personal OS.. Imho the best ever X86 I have used  (dos, windowses, linuxes, Os/2...) but. Today..  well.. worth testing still, it'll may one day make comeback.    :-)