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§ñühwø£f

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Jul 1, 2008, 4:58:55 PM7/1/08
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Theres a story on the OSNEWS website about a Process Controller clone that works on windows. While theres the usual gushing about how kewl it is to have some BeOS functionality on your Windoze desktop, I wonder why they didnt just consider using BeOS itself with the original Process Controller?
If you want the BeOS experience, you have to run BeOS :)

Benjamin Angerer

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Jul 2, 2008, 1:17:33 PM7/2/08
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§ñühwø£f schrieb:

> Theres a story on the OSNEWS website about a Process Controller clone that works on windows. While theres the usual gushing about how kewl it is to have some BeOS functionality on your Windoze desktop, I wonder why they didnt just consider using BeOS itself with the original Process Controller?
> If you want the BeOS experience, you have to run BeOS :)
>
Well, maybe they want to use their pcs for something that BeOS can't
deliver. Although I love BeOS very much and try to use it wherever I
_can_, I just can't use it sensibly all over the place. Maybe Haiku can
change that, but certainly BeOS itself is meanwhile coming of age a bit...
and never minding the above; ProcessController is a nice piece of
software as it is, under BeOS or not.

§ñühw¤£f

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Jul 2, 2008, 5:51:47 PM7/2/08
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In message <486bb7e6$1...@news.arcor-ip.de>, Benjamin Angerer wrote:
> §ñühwø£f schrieb:
> > Theres a story on the OSNEWS website about a Process Controller clone
> that works on windows. While theres the usual gushing about how kewl it is
> to have some BeOS functionality on your Windoze desktop, I wonder why they
> didnt just consider using BeOS itself with the original Process Controller?
> > If you want the BeOS experience, you have to run BeOS :)
> >
> Well, maybe they want to use their pcs for something that BeOS can't
> deliver.

DRM and malware?

> Although I love BeOS very much and try to use it wherever I
> _can_, I just can't use it sensibly all over the place. Maybe Haiku can
> change that, but certainly BeOS itself is meanwhile coming of age a bit...

Compared to windows legacy ridden code?

> and never minding the above; ProcessController is a nice piece of
> software as it is, under BeOS or not.

Preferably under BeOS :)

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