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Ten Years of BeOS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the be-all-that-you-can-be dept.

Tracker writes "BeOS was released to developers officially for the first time ten years ago. OSNews has a charming write-up about the BeOS, some interesting historical events since 1994, and a few anecdotes as well. Today, BeOS still lives on with projects like the freeware BeOS Max (built upon BeOS 5 PE), the open source re-implementation from scratch OpenBeOS and YellowTAB's commercial Zeta OS (based on unreleased and updated code of what would have been 'BeOS 6' if Be wasn't purchased by Palm in 2001)."

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  1. complete and utter failure by kunudo · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's dying. punt.

  2. My mac troubles! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just bought a G5 after listening to mac people talk about how theirr machines are so much better than PCs and they "never" break down and never lock-up for no reason......WELL........

    Last week I bought this thing and since then have had to reinstall OS-X twice, uninstalled and reinstalled Office v.10 twice and still am unable to unzip certain files (Adobe Illustrator, and the drivers for my HP G85 OfficeJet).

    Like I said I am a newbie when it comes to macs, its been 15 years since the last time I was on a mac, so it is frustrating when I cant fix the problems on my own...

    I have gone thru and fixed the permissions thru Disk Diag. but the same problems still exist. Stuffit causes errors whenever I try to expand (unzip) Illustrator, and HP drivers, and the ****ed thing locks up more than a old 386 trying to run SETI@Home...

    Where do I begin ?? :confused:

    BTW -

    I did not uninstall and reinstall Office v.10 because of the Stuffit issue. I had to uninstall and reinstall because of so many lock-ups and "weird" things that were going on.

  3. Re:10 years? by dave420 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hahahaha! Grow up, dude - seriously. THAT's what killed it? Hahahaha!!! Whatever. You linux fanatics are playing the same, old-ass record. Get a real excuse as to why people keep on using Windows over other operating systems. It's not what Microsoft does, but what the other OSs don't do. Drivers are one GREAT example. Try to get some exotic hardware working on linux, and you better hope you know how to compile stuff, as you're going to need it.