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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I remember back in 1999, I had just started playing with Linux and decided to get adventurous. Sometime in early 2000, I don't remember how I had even heard of BeOS, but I downloaded it (I still called it "Bee-Ose" back then), and within an hour, had it on my NT4 domain talking to shares. It was such a joy - so easy to use, so fast, so perfectly useful. I immediately loaded it as the main OS on my home PC. I wrote every post-graduate paper of my life in Gobe Productive.
I starting hanging out in comp.os.beos from time to time. Who can forget the USENET spamming troll, Bob. Eventually, someone helped me fix a few problems. Within a year or two, she'd invite me to become an editor on her new site, OSNews.
It is pretty interesting how the BeOS community was tight, as compared to some of the other, larger communities. You could always count on getting help if you had a problem. More than anything, it really was special - it sucks that that piece of it is gone.