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BeOS
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Started conversation May 24, 2001
I've heard of BeOS and would like to know more.
-- DoctorMO --
BeOS
Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation Posted May 24, 2001
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... 
, must go to games now...
BeOS
Researcher 177402 Posted May 25, 2001
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! 
Chris
BeOS
Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation Posted May 25, 2001
I just emailed the author and he says the driver can be run from BeOS. It works now. No problem!!!
BeOS
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Feb 28, 2002
Boards have moved quite a bit scince then... but BeOS is dead and no more. Damb! back to Linux then!
-- DoctorMO --
BeOS
Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation Posted Mar 2, 2002
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? 
BeOS
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Mar 2, 2002
I thought the guys behind it whent bust? *looks as if he's wrong again*
-- DoctorMO--
BeOS
Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation Posted Mar 2, 2002
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.
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- 1: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (May 24, 2001)
- 2: Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation (May 24, 2001)
- 3: Researcher 177402 (May 25, 2001)
- 4: Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation (May 25, 2001)
- 5: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Feb 28, 2002)
- 6: Whoami - iD dislikes punctuation (Mar 2, 2002)
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