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.
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Between my new G5 OSX box, and my P4 w/a gig of ram, I don't have a PC capable of running BeOS any longer (as far as a primary PC is concerned. The PC's I own that can run it are waiting to be sold or given away).
Maybe some day one of the BeOS derivitaves will allow me to run it on my newer hardware, but until then, the OS is dead to me. 8(
Which is ok... Competing OS's have caught up and passed BeOS a long time ago.
Now if Zeta can run on my current systems, I'll give it a try, but the last I heard is that they're bogged down by the same limitations of the original Be. And for that matter, they still haven't came clean on whether they own the source to the kernel or not (which is needed if they hope to support newer systems & technologies). Last I heard they're still alluding to them having the source, without saying one way or the other, and without doing anything which would indicate they do. Kinda sad really...