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Be Buyout Looms Closer
Xaroth writes "The Register is reporting that Be, Inc. has found a buyer. For those that haven't followed Be's progress lately, they also eliminated about a third of their workforce on Tuesday (28 positions), consisting mainly of their sales and marketing departments, but that number also includes some of their development staff. The Register claims that these layoffs are part of the buyout agreement. While an official statement hasn't been made by Be, Inc., the suspected "Mystery Buyer" is either Sony or Palm. Be's stock was up as much as 40% today at the news. I hope whoever buys them (if this holds true) continues development for the desktop--'twould be a shame to let such wonderful technology go to waste."
The kernel is written in C & (small bits of) asm.
At the time, using metroworks was a good idea - you could cross-compile from MacOS. Yeah, it was a shame that the linker was limited to 64k of code (until r5.0) which ,eant you had to buy the commercial version for larger projects, but you could still get your feet wet and write small applications.
Additionally, Metroworks PPC does better optimizing than gcc, is significantly faster, and requires less memory.
I should hope it has one processor tied behind its back. . . on SMP machines, linux always has all but one processor tied behind its back. Letting anything go against Linux while using all its processors would be like sending 12 lions after the christian.
Full of piss and shit as always, I see. BeOS 5 does not install, PE or standard edition. Period.
Gotta love that fourth post. No first for me.
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Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
Not even Tux Racer.
Could not agree more. BeOS 5 does not even install on a standar x86 box; try it if you don't believe it. Release the tracker as a replacement for Windows Explorer, and then die.
Define "standar x86 box". I tried it, many times. It worked every time. I guess your scraped-together-from-Kmart-parts machine isn't as standard as you think it is.