Here's a list of more links, in case the other mirror goes down. You should be able to grab an image here a 40MB download, expanding to a 600MB image file on your C: drive. That's not really what this article is about, but I'd guess many of you are OS fans, running dual, triple, or higher boot systems :).īeOS version 5 PE used to available from Be.com, but since the company's liquidation, the site has been all but shut down. Of course, you could just get the OS yourself, and install it on your PC.
Where possible, I have warned of any known issues.
Note: Once again, I have tested these utilities under Win95 OSR2 and Windows 2000, but I can't vouch for their performance under 98 or NT. Basically, a mixture of every OS you've seen, but with a dash of extra style :) See some screenshots at the BeHave site. The look is simplistic and brightly coloured.a hybrid of Windows and Mac, with a few Unix-ish additions thrown in. " OpenBeOS is a project dedicated to the re-creation, followed by the extension, of the BeOS." - " Blue Eyed OS" another one. At beosonline there's free developer editions available, with new drivers to increase hardware support. Notable links in this respect, there's attempts made to update also the OS. However, much as with the Amiga OS, the community still remains dedicated, writing new software to keep BeOS as a valid alternative to the standard Windows setup. Unfortunately, since Be went into liquidation, any support for the OS has all but disappeared, and the future doesn't look much brighter. The Professional edition is still available in some places, with the proprietary software (Realplayer etc) that was removed from the downloadable version.
Everyone likes something for free, so this move increased BeOS' popularity. Now Be fans could do all the same things as Windows users - play MP3s, create graphics, play Quake2, and all wrapped up in a much more friendly installation routine.Ī couple of years ago, version 5 was released, including a free personal edition which runs off an ordinary Windows FAT drive. Version 4.5 was a huge leap, with much greater hardware compatiblity, and a growing online software development community. The OS was very basic at first, but evolved over time, gaining a reputation as "the media OS" due to its multimedia capabilities. Eventually, BeOS found a home on the average desktop PC in 1998, along with other "alternative" OSes. Initially intended to run on their own BeBox hardware, the OS soon migrated to the Mac, but fell foul to hardware development costs and Apple's hostility on each occasion. Inc is most famous for its operating system, BeOS. Formed by an ex-Apple employee in 1990, Be.
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