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BeOS For Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-things-pretty dept.

Bob Gortician writes "The BlueOS guys have posted a few screenshots of their progress in porting the BeOS interface to Linux. Note that this is an intermediary step toward a BeOS clone OS. " I actually had a Be machine for a while, and played with it - nice OS, and well thought out, just a problem of very little applications for it.

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  1. I know how we can help... by 42forty-two42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...anyone have a grammar checker?

    1. Re:I know how we can help... by jsprat · · Score: 4, Funny

      The project leader is Guillaume Maillard. It's hosted at blueos.free.fr. I'm going out on a limb - the guy speaks something other than English as his native language?

  2. Applications? by RobL3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    just a problem of very little applications for it. Why were the apps so small?
    Did it help to have a bigger monitor?
    When you iconify a very little application, does it disappear?

    Jeez, no wonder BeOS failed.

  3. in honor of Netpositive by dadaist · · Score: 0, Funny

    A slashdot story.
    broken slashcode --
    BeOs or PayPal?

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    MU!
  4. Apps by rjamestaylor · · Score: 4, Funny
    just a problem of very little applications for it.

    That's why I prefer Windows, where all my applications are *huge.

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello