BeOS For Linux

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 1, 2002 @05:53AM 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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Looks nice... by 42forty-two42 · 2002-03-01 05:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...but think of a beowulf cluster of those!
Policy on revoked moderators? by dstone · 2002-03-01 05:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I haven't really tracked the "official" decision, but I understand that many high-karma users (including myself) have had their moderation privileges revoked because of some posting or moderating or meta-moderating action they performed. (ie, modding up something controversial the editors didn't like, supporting controversial posters with meta-mods, etc.)

To be honest, I'm not sure at what point I lost my mod priveleges, but I haven't had them for quite some time. Yet I continue to try to post informative or insightful or funny things.

To CmdrTaco... what is your position going to be on revoking mod priveleges to paying subscribers? If I pay, will I be able to freely post and mod and meta-mod like I thought I could before?
1. Re:Policy on revoked moderators? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-01 06:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  You want to be a moderator, when you can't even tell the difference between Slashdot and some faked BeOS windows? Those faked BeOS windows doesn't look anything like Slashdot!
2. Re:Policy on revoked moderators? by dstone · 2002-03-01 06:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  My bad. A BeOS story got posted soon after the paid Slashdot story and I replied to the BeOS story instead. Totally my fault. There goes my karma! Anyways, the correct posting is here. It's most definitely on-topic there. Please read it!
Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-01 05:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

At least BeOS was free, and didn't charge you $5 for every 1000 applications you wanted to open.
Cha-ching! by danielrose · 2002-03-01 06:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You are out of Slashdot Credits! Please insert $5.00 to continue!

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Re:The user interface should Be better by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-01 06:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

OT: Wow, no ads rock!
God damn you're a sucker.
Re:HEMOS by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-01 06:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

CmdrTaco : Go there now and get my dick up your ass!
Re:the *REAL* problem by LoseNotLooseGuy · 2002-03-01 17:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Microsoft did intimidate OEM s into not loading BeOS together with windows under the treat of loosing their OEM licenses.

I do not believe OEMs would feel terribly threatened at the prospect of Microsoft relaxing their OEM licenses. On the other hand, they would undoubtedly be annoyed by the threat of failing to receive their licenses. I believe the word you were looking for is losing.

Congratulations! You have been participant #40 in my campaign to rid Slashdot of this error.

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