[openbeos] Re: Binary compatibility with Linux, and Be OS

  • From: Fred K Ollinger <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:46:27 -0500 (EST)

> False.
> One year ago I'd use RealPlayer as an example... now it's not the best
> one.

It's not open source, but there are alternatives. ffmpeg is one example.

There _are_ binary only apps for linux only. But one doesn't run beos to
run binary-only linux apps. Better effort to replace the binary-only linux
app w/ a beos-only app rather than to emulate linux. Otherwise, why not
just use windows?

I think that running linux apps on another OS (OpenBSD, etc) is really
cool, but it won't help beos as a platform as much as it having its own
killer apps. I'll put forth my feeble abilities to helping in both areas,
though, so I'm not saying that nobody should focus on compatability
layers. It's your own time.

Just think about OS/2, though. Way better than windows, it delivered
things (real multi-tasking) that MS didn't perfect until OS/2 was called
dead by the digeratti, but that didn't help its adoption.


Fred

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