Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jun 2004 06:22 UTC
PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Used BeOS 4.5 up to BeOS 5 PE back home, mainly for mail, web, irc and entertainment. (now studying oversea). Really missed that Pentium 166MHz. The system was 100% compatible with BeOS. It was FAST, compared to an extensively speed-tweaked Win98SE on the same machine. I recall booting back to Win98SE only when I need to use MS Office. Linux' was just technically-challenging for me back then, and I just needed something cheap and fast to browse, play music and watch animes.
). And SkyOS too, if you count hobbyist OS in.
Haven't booted in to BeOS for 4 full months now. Deleted the partitions, since animes are eating the real estate very fast. VESA-only mode and no sound drivers are the reason of me not booting frequently. (nvidia geforce2go, yamaha ac-xg [hint: toshiba laptop]). If Zeta's final release would include support for my laptop, then I might spend my savings on it. Maybe I'll build a desktop and buy it anyway.
My bets are on OpenBeOS. No grudge on yT, but OBOS' approach is much more promising, in terms of continuity and technicality (or so I think
Currently dual-booting between FreeBSD 4.10 when I need to get work done and Windows XP for music/videos (sound doesn't work on fbsd).