Beos?

[cajunman4life]

Does anyone have any experience with BeOS? I remember a few years ago looking at it as an alternative to Windows 98... then I got XP. I still prefer UNIX/Linux over Windows, but I do have 2 machines (my laptop and our old desktop) at home that still run Windows. Either way... anyone that's ever used BeOS, what are your thoughts?

[TCH-Don]

I remember trying it years ago

it did not detect all my hardware, but that was then.

 

Linux has progressed so much farther.

The ones I have tried work great.

[cajunman4life]

Yes, I'm a huge Linux fan as well. However, I do have a Pentium MMX 200MHz box, and aparently that's where BeOS shines. Maybe I should just go out and find a copy to try myself.

[MikeJ]

Be was acquired by Palm back in 2001, if I recall correctly, likely in order for Palm to incorporate some of the BeOS technology into future handhelds.

 

I ran BeOS 4.5 on a system for awhile back when Be was around and it was a nice OS for older systems. There is an open-source OS called Haiku that has been in development as an open-source version of BeOS (but I don't really know it's status).

 

I'm not sure if BeOS is still available anywhere, but you could try BeBits.

[cajunman4life]

There is also Zeta. I've checked out SkyOS before (never used it just was surfing around on the webpage) and thought it looked pretty neat. I don't wish to pay to become a beta tester though.