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BeOS Max Edition v3.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eternal-flame dept.

JigSaw writes "After Be went down, 2-3 "distros" of BeOS 5 PE (the free version of BeOS) were created and continued making releases by literally tweaking the internals, patching the kernel etc. in order to bring BeOS up to speed with new hardware. Additionally, these distros include lots of third party software. BeOS Max Edition is the most popular of the bunch, and version v3.0 came out today. The BFS ISO installs in its own BFS partition, however it requires a bit of attention in the way you have to burn it."

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  1. Aaah! My Eyes!! by tweder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good Lord! There should seriously be a disclaimer attatched to the link to BeOS Max Edition website.

  2. Re:CDRTools Windows by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need to get an ASPI layer for your system.

    Click HERE for the tool forceASPI.

    Click HERE to see where Roxio's software should go.**

    **Dont click if you value your sight. It nasty.

    --
  3. Re:Just curious, but by Sillypuddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    in the true slashdot fashion, you didn't read the faq:

    Many of you have asked us to create ISO images for BeOS Installations. This article comes to clear out some misconceptions about BeOS Installations.

    BeOS images are ISO images. But not ISO Images in the sense Windows sees them. Those ISO contain FAT32 or FAT16 compliant filesystems. ISO9660 compliant is a FAT32 system. BeOS uses BeFS which is a 64bit journaling filesystem that stores a lot of the file info in different places such as Attributes. If we where to create an installation of BeOS using a classic ISO image (one that can be read by IsoBuster) it wouldn't Install !!!! If you copied files out of it to BeOS, some of them would be useless.

    Installation of BeOS requires BeFS Images. THAT'S IT.

    And we won't fix it. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

    NOTE: YOU CAN ASK THE COMPANIES THAT CREATE ISOBUSTER AND WINIMAGE TO SUPPORT BeFS.

    -joe

  4. BeOS AbiWord Port by uwog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since I saw AbiWord already in the 3rd screenshot, I figured there might be some interest left for an AbiWord 2.x port for BeOS as well. If anyone is interested in such a port, he/she should stand up now and contact the AbiWord Developers Mailing List. If we find no active BeOS developers within the next 2 weeks, we'll drop the currently unmaintained and outdated BeOS port from our tree.