[olug] Re: BeOS in public domain & meetings

[Eric Lusk]

I'm still holding onto my cds for 4.5 and 5.0 Pro; was
incredibly good on my old 266 system, although I had
problems with 5.0 and my 3com NIC; don't think those
problems were fixed before Be closed down. :(
I've never seen anything boot faster, and I hope that
development is alowed to continue.

--- unfie at cox.net wrote:

> 
> > Personally, I sugest someone take him up on the
> offer. Of all the systems 
> > I've seen, this has been the one I truly "enjoyed"
> using. 
> 
> I thoroughly enjoyed using BeOS for the short time I
> got to... and was really curious what a BeBox would
> have been like :).  Sadly, no one has taken me up on
> the offer yet. Weirdos.
> 
> > It's also very much alive in the efforts of the
> OpenBeOS Project, recently 
> > renamed Haiku OS   http://www.haiku-os.org/   It
> aims to be, and is so far 
> > succeeding, in being source, and almost completely
> binary compatible with 
> > BeOS r5. 
> 
> Although I'm not sure if it's still viable, one of
> the developers for openbeos (at the time) used to
> hang out in Undernet's #beos.
>  
> > Since BeOS was a very modular design
> 
> This is something the people have to see to
> understand.  It's still years ahead of linux and
> microsoft (can't speak for apple on this one).
> 
> 
> > plans for 
> > # ARM dev board - TI OMAP based dev board
> > # Sun Blade 100 - UltraSPARC IIe in 64-bit mode
> > # NeXT B&W slab - Motorola 68040 based
> > # SGI Indy - MIPS R5000 based Indy in 32- and
> 64-bit mode
> > # DEC Multia - Alpha 21064 
> 
> This could be quite cool.  It'd be neat to see it
> fire up on that Alpha I have that no one bought heh.
>  I'd like to see the open source project make
> inroads to the embedded market, perhaps with an BeIA
> type clone/port/fork.  Would proove very neato.
>  
> > > Can you give some examples as to how Be and
> Linux interact?  Maybe a demo
> 
> There are NFS and SMB modules available, so that's
> fairly plain jane.  It has a shell, so you can
> telnet/ssh all you want, etc.  I don't recall any
> odditities concerning it interacting, although I
> don't recall ever attempting to print from BeOS.
> 
> -Will
> 
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