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BeOS and CeBIT looking up

Wow, looks cool, I liked part about encoding/ripping/watching DVD at once but telling how fast you can load 4500 mp3 is strage, I load 7800 mp3 in like 1-2 sec. with XMMS.
Seems like BeOS might live long after all 🙂
 
BeOS always was strong in the multithreading department. Thought they were toast though. Nice to see I might have been wrong.
 
Thought they were toast though.
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Even though Yellowtab is going to be the "new BeOS" it really isn't owned by Be and Be as a compnay is "toast" since they were purchased by Palm, but what Yellowtab has done is that they have licensed the code from Be before Palm bought them out and they got a license to use the code indefinitely.

Guess there aren't a lot of BeOS fans around here anymore but this is new OS is what I have been waiting for, guess all the questionable and patched verisons I have been running like, BeOS PE Max edition, Dev edition, DANO and the likes are all going to be done away with on my Be box with ZETA/Yellowtab, now if we just had a release date. The one thing that I hadn't heard anything about on any of the Be/Yellowtab forums I go to was the capability to run Mac OS on x86 architecture, don't know how that one is accomplished but if it works that is freaking incredibly cool IMO.
 
BeOS definitely appears to be a nice OS, but limited application support, combined with my lack of need to use the multimedia applications that are supposedly best to run on it, prevent me from giving it serious consideration.
 
but limited application support,
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What apps do you typically use, you may be surpriesed to find that there are alternatives that will run in BeOS.

Will this finally be able to run in VMWare?
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Don't know about that since I run Be on a dedicated machine, but you are right that in the past I have never been able to get it to run in Vmware either.
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
BeOS definitely appears to be a nice OS, but limited application support, combined with my lack of need to use the multimedia applications that are supposedly best to run on it, prevent me from giving it serious consideration.
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I bet that is similar to what a lot of people said about Linux when it was smaller.
 
It doesn't seem like it's missing a lot apps, even BeOS 5 Max I tried had nearly everything except MS compatible office (only abiword IIRC).
Thought I would give several hundred developer copies free for people who are willing to start interesting/usefull (and probably freeware) projects.
 
Originally posted by: Haden
It doesn't seem like it's missing a lot apps, even BeOS 5 Max I tried had nearly everything except MS compatible office (only abiword IIRC).
Thought I would give several hundred developer copies free for people who are willing to start interesting/usefull (and probably freeware) projects.
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Well, maybe if things have improved that much, I will try to get ahold of another computer and give it a try again. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
Originally posted by: Haden
It doesn't seem like it's missing a lot apps, even BeOS 5 Max I tried had nearly everything except MS compatible office (only abiword IIRC).
Thought I would give several hundred developer copies free for people who are willing to start interesting/usefull (and probably freeware) projects.
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Well, maybe if things have improved that much, I will try to get ahold of another computer and give it a try again. 🙂
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There is no harm in obtaining a copy (legally of course) and playing around with it for a few days. When it is released I will probably purchase a copy just to play around with (hopefully there will be a post either here or /. so I know when it is released). I used it briefly a while back and have to admit that it is quite possibly the best desktop OS I have ever used. Yes, even more so than my current favorite: Mac OS X.
 
Nothing feels quite like BeOS when you work with it. I didn't have a ton of experience (versions 4 and 5 was all, and briefly at that) but beos was "snappy". When I told it to do something it really doesn't matter what else it was doing, it would respond. Hard not to like.
 
When I told it to do something it really doesn't matter what else it was doing, it would respond
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You are right, no doubt it is responsive and the fact that the new Zeta is a rebuild it should all be better than the original BeOS, that's what has me fired up for it, for those who may not have seen the original BeOS in action, here is the link to an old post I started here on the Anand BBS about BeOS, go here and check out my first post with the movie link, be warned it is BIG file download though.

movie post link
 
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