The Be Lives!

An anonymous reader submits: "As reported on the OS News: BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is based on the original BeOS 5 PE with an additional number of drivers, add-ons, AthlonXP/Pentium4 patches and more software. It includes new development tools from the OpenBeOS team but you will also be able to select the old tools. This is an ideal way to install BeOS 5 off a bootable CD image, for all those who wanted to try out BeOS but they were unable to do so because of the bugs/drivers and patches BeOS 5 PE needs to have applied into it before it successfully run on or support most modern PCs. BeBits has an overview of the files included in the package, and downloads for the Be Max in parts or as a whole (all 213MB). Enjoy!"

Comments

The BE Lives! Wonderful! Great! Final!

[metacosm]

Finally I can run that one... umm... "thing" I need to run that does that "stuff"... yeah, and it can only be done on BeOS -- nothing else.

Also, I want a single-user OS... multi-user OSes are for the birds, it isn't like you can connect computers to a big network of other computers or anything.

Finally -- just what I have been waiting for, a new release of BeOS.

Re:Awesome!

[Tim_F]

I really hate to disagree with this comment. Especially seeing as BeOS was one of the least functional OSes in history. Not since the original Xerox PARK project has there been something as hideously ugly as BeOS. But we are taling fuctionality here. And on a whole, BeOS had more of it than Linux. It supproted a Journaling File System first, it played commercial games sooner, and it was one of the first OSes to have an alternative office suite (Thanks to Gobe Productive for this, I don't say this often, but in this case, Microsoft really messed up, Gobe was great!).

So what I am saying is this: Linux is intrinsically less productive than BeOS, even though BeOS looks liek arse when compared to WIndowsXP.

RADEON

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

And the ATI support is...

Where?