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BeOS For Linux!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the existential-operating-systems dept.

Patrick Mullen writes: "Hey, BeOS for Linux has been released. Be doesn't seem to show this off on their page, so I've created a mirror of it. I'm not sure if it works on PPC, but it sure works on Intel. Download here."

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  1. To clear things up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    It doesn't run in Linux. The file expands to an image of a beos filesytem and a boot floppy image which you write to a floppy and reboot to run it. Essentially it saves the step of creating a new partition although you can do it later once you got Beos running. Secondly, the 40MB files expands to 580MB of which about 1/3 is used up wrt to the beos filesystem! I tried it out today. Beos is very slick looking but the worst part is a lack of hardware support. It doesn't support my 3com 509 card and many others. This thing doesn't look like crippleware like some people say and looks like the real thing. However you will have to download the development stuff later from their ftp site.

  2. Re:WTF? by SEE · · Score: 5

    BeOS Personal Edition is a free-beer version of BeOS 5.0 designed to be installed in a 500MB volume file hosted on a local FS instead of in its own partition. It comes in two slightly different packages -- one, already announced before now on /., is to be installed on a Win9x and NT machine. This one is designed be installed on a Linux machine.

    Except for the fact that it's located in an existing FS instead of in its own partition, it is a completely separate OS.

    Steven E. Ehrbar

  3. Facts about BeOS PE by kyhwana · · Score: 5

    Ok, I keep seeing people post stuff that isn't true about the BeOS "Personal edition" so here are the _facts_
    BeOS 5 PE is NOT a trial version, crippled or an "evaluation".
    It is the entire OS, all of it.. just the same BeOS "Pro Version"
    It IS BeOS..
    Another thing.
    The title of the article is wrong.. The linux "version" just includes a readme, be partition image and a bootdisk image.
    Copy the image to /beos, use the boot disk and you're off.
    Im guessing it's just for users of OS's other then windows, since they wouldn't be able to run the installer exe that the windows "version" needs.
    Also, BeOS "PE" does support SMP, and various other things.
    You just have to use the bootdisk, instead of using the windows loader.
    (Windows 9x disables all the other CPU's)
    Also, you are NOT limited to just the BFS image partition.
    Once you have it running, you can use Installer to copy/install BeOS (your current setyp) to any other partition.
    So, make some free space, run BeOS from the image and install it there.

    Summary: BeOS 5 PE is the entire OS, it has no limitations.
    The only thing different between PE and the Pro version is what Be has told you. Realplayer, mp3 encoders (which you can download anyway) etcetc.
    Do not let anyone fool you, including Be.

    --
    My email addy? should be easy enough.
  4. R5 explained quickly by Xenex · · Score: 5

    Warning - this will be marked as a troll :)

    Free BeOS R5, aka, BeOS 5 Personal Edition was release on the 28th of March. The "Personal Edition" is made up of an compressed disk image that "uncompresses" to 500meg (only around 200 is used).

    The Personal Edition only works in conjuction with another OS (however this can be worked around, see http://skippy.dhs.org [sorry if you get /.ed skippy]). The OS's that can be used with the personal edition are Win9x and NT/2k, and Linux on the Intel platform. This is due to the fact that Apple will not supply the required hardware specifications to Be (not because of the NeXT over BeOS crap, just because Apple when with NeXT doesn't mean Be would ditch a platform's user base, because when your company is that small, you can't ditch users by choice).

    This "BeOS for Linux" is the same OS that was released for Windows on the 28th. It DOES NOT have Linux, or Windows, running behind it. It is a full release of BeOS R5, only lacking a few commercial apps (just like some Linux distros). A belive the Linux "version" boots off a floppy just as the NT/2k version does.

    If anyone wants any non-my-video/sound/net/isdn/winmodem-doesn't-work- inBeOS help, or BeOS info in general, feel happy to e-mail me at the above address (figure it out :)

    *This is a repeat post. Bring back CmdrTaco and Hemos, their posts are usually OK... :)*

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