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BeOS

Post 1

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

I've heard of BeOS and would like to know more.

-- DoctorMO --


BeOS

Post 2

Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation

BeOS 5 PE is free and sits in half a gig of your Windows drive - check
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to see if your kit is supported, then it's a free download. Particularly check for a supported graphics card, because while the system looks great, it is not very nice in 640*480 greyscale, which is what I have to use because the only support available for GeForce 2 cards at the moment must be installed from under Linux...

Hope that helped. Also, for some software, check out
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Most of it is Open Source or Freeware...
When there is no more space in the half-gig, you can still access your Win drive from within BeOS... smiley - online2long, must go to games now...


BeOS

Post 3

Researcher 177402

Hold on... DoctorMO? is that you from a certain message board with jeni adrian ken and the others? God i miss that... here's where you say it's someone else, but hi anyway! smiley - smiley
Chris


BeOS

Post 4

Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation

I just emailed the author and he says the driver can be run from BeOS. It works now. No problem!!!


BeOS

Post 5

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

Boards have moved quite a bit scince then... but BeOS is dead and no more. Damb! back to Linux then!

-- DoctorMO --


BeOS

Post 6

Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation

BeOS isn't dead... http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/
It does need our support though - I'm going to write a bit for the EG on it soon...

Whoami? smiley - cake


BeOS

Post 7

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

I thought the guys behind it whent bust? *looks as if he's wrong again*

-- DoctorMO--


BeOS

Post 8

Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation

The guys behing BeOS sold out to Palm, who aren;t doing much visible with it. OpenBeOS (OBOS) are starting again from scratch, building in BeOS 5 compatability. And places like BeBits are still running - check out the link. See http://www.be.com/ for the fate of Be Inc.

Whoami? smiley - cake


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