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Anyone here ever use BeOS? I used BeOS 5 PE on its own partition for about.. a year.. a good while back. Before Be went to shit and had to liquidate their assets. It was really fucking beautiful. I can't explain why - samba didn't work very well (was using third party drivers) so i couldn't listen to my music properly, and things crashed once in a while, and I couldn't watch dvds or movies properly... But the GUI was just so beautiful. terrific. I've been reminiscing last night and today, wasting a lot of time pouring over screenshots of BeOS and the continuation project, Zeta. Gives me a nice nostalgic feeling. I'm definitely going to get a copy of Zeta 1.0 and install it on my laptop - after checking hardware compatibility of course - and have some fun, once it's released.. I can't wait. :) BeOS makes me happy. |
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(zeta) (BeOS 5) |
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I used BeOS 4 i think. Was some years ago, I agree about the interface, it was very pretty. I never really used it for anything though and ended up deleteing the partition. |
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thought there might've been more of a following, but oh well.. sure there were only a coupla thousand BeOS users in total. respekt, weatheredstoner! maybe you should give zeta a try when it comes out. :) |
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Possibly! What advantages does it have over windows? |
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stable as a rock looks pretty it's not windows it really doesn't have that many advantages over windows, since the software base for it is still relatively small, but.. it gives ME a tingly feeling to use it anyways :D |
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Those are some nice shots. Those drive icons.. Am I right in assuming the bar next to it displays free space etc? If so then I'm on that shit! Plus, the clarity in those shots is tasty. Anti-aliased? |
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yep that's the free space.. i think beos was the first OS to have that sort of shit, and background wallpapers in folder windows, and previews of images as icons and stuff like that.. it's a multimedia OS.. and umm.. anti-aliased? i dunno.. but everything looks super-sharp on BeOS - i think most of the graphics are done with vector graphics, so everything looks like it's in a really nicely designed flash cartoon. very noice :) |
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I'm a sucker for that sort of stuff. I'll get a release of that. |
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would be nice if it was a free download. I thought it would be anyway. also I dont think it supports all my hardware, plus I've wasted too many partitions already fucking up linux. I've heard some positive things about BeOS though. might give it a try on another PC one day :) |
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BeOS 5 PE is still out there for a free download a bit outdated though.. |
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If I remember well you can install it under windows 9x, but you need a boot diskette. Dont have a floppy drive anymore. Might try it on my antique laptop one day. There's lots of stuff for my internship on it now though, which I;'m not going to put at any risk. |
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not 100% sure on the win9x part... |
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yeah you're right.. ish.. two ways of running BeOS 5PE: as an exe which you just double click and suddenly you're rebooted into BeOS (inside a 100MB jail or something) OR you can install it on a partition, with a bit of trickery, using a boot diskette. |
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an exe sounds nice. I might try that on my laptop. |
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... as i said, few years old now... i'm just waiting for Zeta to be released :) |
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that link didn't work at all, even after fixing the extra 'http://' Will zeta be free or will it have a hefty price on it? |
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i have bought BeOS 5 Pro so i can run it under Virtual PC on my Mac very nice indeed i may or may not get Zeta.....i dunno, i don't like the way they've modified the GUI :( |
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never thought i'd make a mistake like that. Zeta will be available for 100 euros. It will also undoubtedly be available on Bittorrent - there's a beta (i wouldn't bother.. it's also quite old, and they've made many fixes and improvements with the final version) floating around there at the moment. so you take your pick ;) oscillik - if you're talking about the changes they've made to the appearance of the windowmanager - it's all themeable. you can make it look like beos 5 :) i don't like their new themes (although i like the way you can have the BeOS signature "short window bar" or a normal long windows one), i know i'll be deffos going oldskool when i get it :) What do you use your beos for? |
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i got it for geeky reasons - i'm very interested in OS's if i can get hold of Zeta i may end up using as my primary OS on my Athlon64 (if it's supported) or i may set up a dual boot on my PowerBook :D (it will run on PPC won't it?) |
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No, it won't run on PPC... They're not going to remake mistakes of the past :) |
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zeta is pure shit from my brief experience. i knew somebody who was a beta tester, and tried one a few months ago; poor. they've taken what made beos so great (simplicity, "it just works") and turned it into something resembling a linux/windows hybrid. wonder if haiku gets anywhere. |
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thing is: 1) it'll take AGES before the open beos projects get anywhere.. but i'm watching them eagerly 2) zeta 1.0 is going to be a VAST improvement on the beta versions. yes, apparently they were incredibly shit. |
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