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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. Re:Wacky conspiracy theories by alex_ant · · Score: 0, Redundant
    In practicality most people would immedately reformat that partition as another Windows disk (in fact the company making the machine would do well to make this easy),

    Just to nitpick, but most people don't know what a partition is. They have no idea what formatting means. They have no idea what an operating system is. They think Windows is just some inherent part of the computer - they don't even question its presence. If you were to tell the average Best Buy shopper that they can use BeOS instead of Windows, here's how the conversation would go:

    You: "You know, you can use BeOS instead of Windows on this computer."

    Customer: "What is BeOS?"

    You: "It's a different operating system which is like Windows, but different.

    Customer: "So it's like another application for it?"

    You: "For what? It's an operating system. It does what Windows does, but it's not Windows."

    Customer: "What do you mean? Computers only have Windows."

    You: "This one runs BeOS too."

    Customer: "This computer doesn't have Windows?

    You: "It does, but you can choose between BeOS and Windows. It's your choice. The computer comes with Windows enabled by default, but you can change it."

    Customer: "I don't understand. That's not possible. All computers have Windows. Consumer Reports said make sure you get Windows XP because it's more reliable than Windows Me. Does this computer have Windows XP?"

    You: "No, that's not what I..."

    Customer: "Okay, so what you mean is, I can click on the start button, go to programs, then the BeOS folder, and I can click BeOS and then what?"

    You: "I think you're on the wrong track here..."

    Customer: "I need a computer that can run Microsoft Office."

    You: "This computer can run Microsoft Office..."

    Customer: "But you just said it has BeOS."

    Alex