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It's The End Of The Be As We Know It

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-i-feel-fine dept.

JRAC writes "Be Inc. has replaced their web site's entire contents with information on the sale of Be to Palm. Stock holders can find all relevant info on the Stock Information page. BeOS 5 Personal Edition is no longer available from the site. Looks like it's time to hit the mirrors. Try ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/beos for files. " The official sale was approved just over a month ago.

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  1. Re:You sir, are a fuckwad by davidj0228 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if you are homeless, then where do you put your nice pentium computer? a computer is equal to a homeless man's lunch and i think a homeless person would rather eat than surf the internet.

  2. Re:Opening Be wouldn't really matter anymore... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    >Too much RAM is sucked up by the GUI

    There is an option to turn on window memory compression. It was left disabled in the release because of concern that it may be the cause of a kernel panic (which was later traced to another cause) but could be enabled manually and should be enabled by default in the next release. Some (limited) info:

    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6491
    I can't remember which site I was on that had the good discussion.

  3. Re:almost no trolls by nomadic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    XP isn't particularly stable compared to whatever UNIX flavor you want to name, but it's a hell of a lot better than any of the older Windows versions. It's also a much faster interface than KDE or Gnome, and more intuitive.