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History and Perspective on BeOS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-not-to-do dept.

prepp writes "Avid BeOS user Robert Renling posts his first article about the Be Operating System." An interesting little article, with the amusing conclusion that BeOS isn't dead after all! Ah Zealots. Aren't we fun?

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Interesting

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  2. Dead or not... by groman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dead or not, BeOS was one of the best operating systems I have ever used. If only it had the software/hardware support. It booted faster than DOS(and I'm not kidding), heck, it booted faster than anything else I've ever seen. It had one of the best browsers I've ever seen(Netpositive) and it was very very slim. What they needed is a linux binary emulator and a well designed wine-like windows binary emulator for the software, and a bunch of HOWTOs on how to port BSD/Linux drivers.

    I stopped using it because it didn't support my NIC, and when i sat down to port the driver from BSD i found myself lost in the lack of debugging documentation and gave up.

    Sad. Just sad.

  3. BeBits by joyoflinux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I guess BeBits is still there and offering software...

  4. Why are you so surprised they abandoned it? by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To this day I'm suprised they abandoned the hardware business so quickly.

    While I loved BeOS as an OS, I hated Be, Inc. as a company. They abandoned every product and customer that they ever had. They abandoned the BeBox hardware and even stopped supporting it in later revs of the OS. They abandoned the Mac users that ran BeOS on Macs. They abandoned BeOS users and developers to pursue the (idiotic) network appliance market. Not surprisingly, the network appliance makers were not eager to jump into bed with a company that might abandon them next.

    Be was a perfect example of what happens, and what should happen, to a company that abandons its customers and supporters.