BeOS.... how is it like? (post screenshots plz)

[Takmadeus]

well guys, I downloading BeOS (45 megs!).... now, it webpage seems that doesn't exist anymore..... so I thought that you could help me a little..... I want to know...

1. is it good?
2. is it fast?
3. Can I run it as a secondary OS?
4. will it support my hardware?
5. can you post some screenshots? (in case that you have)

my hardware:

Sis 620 Videocard
CMI8738 sound chipset
HSP56 Micromodem
Sis 900 ethernet adapter
LG 8080B CD-RW
LG 8522B CDROM

WinXP as primary OS

[Kane]

IIRC, its a veriation of linux. Whether it will support your h/w I couldn't say

[Takmadeus]

well thanks Kane!.... do you know about any web about it?

[Kane]

I think they went under a while back.... any way, here is a Beos news site: http://www.beforever.com/
and a couple of othe BeOS related sites:
http://www.lebuzz.com/
http://www.betips.net/

[CronoXG2]

Originally posted by Lord Kane
IIRC, its a veriation of linux. Whether it will support your h/w I couldn't say

BeOS IS NOT A LINUX VARIANT!!!! It is its own unique operating system!!!!

BeOS is a modern end-user OS designed for maximum performance for heavy use with multimedia. Although it was originally designed to run on the PPC architecture, Be eventually ported it to the x86 architecture. It's an extremely easy to use OS that runs extremely fast.

Unfortunetly Palm bought Be out earlier this year, so because a new version of BeOS hasn't been released in some time and Palm has no plans to continue the OS, Be's BeOS is about ready to die. Its hardware support is also rather outdated these days so newer hardware probably won't work with it. Fortunetly there are third party-drivers and there's plenty of software available for BeOS, most of which can be found at http://www.bebits.com/ .

BeOS Pro is still available from some software vendors, however you may be somewhat hard-pressed to find it. The BeOS Personal Edition, which is really meant to be used as a demo and is rather skim, is still freely available on the net. It installs itself on a disk image on your Windows partition, so it doesn't require any partitioning and can be installed directly within Windows (you'll have to boot into it with the floppy bootdisk an included program can make for you if you use NTFS). The downside of this is that you'll suffer slower hard disk access. So trying it is no-risk. Just keep in mind your hardware probably isn't supported (x86 hardware support didn't get very far before Be was gobbled up by Palm).

The good news is that there are several open source projects geared towards creating an open source BeOS (the most well known being OpenBeOS), but, in their current states, they're all years from becoming fully functional users ready for end-users. For more BeOS news and information you should visit http://www.beunited.com/ (from which you can find the BeOS Personal Edition download and links to some other BeOS sites).

[Takmadeus]

erm..... thanks!!!!! that's exactly what I wanted to know..... now, if I could get some screenshots.....

PD: I'm not planning to get any other primary OS than winXP.... I just want to try something new.... which I can experiment with..... guess BeOS will be enough for me this time..... again, thanks a lot....

[CronoXG2]

Originally posted by takmadeus
erm..... thanks!!!!! that's exactly what I wanted to know..... now, if I could get some screenshots.....

PD: I'm not planning to get any other primary OS than winXP.... I just want to try something new.... which I can experiment with..... guess BeOS will be enough for me this time..... again, thanks a lot....

http://www.clarkson.edu/~hillbr/beosscreen.htm - Be sure to click Screenshots Page 2 at the bottom to see more.
http://www.ccrb.demon.co.uk/beos/beos_screenshots.htm
http://www.opera.com/beos/screenshots.html
http://www.abisource.com/screenshots/ - AbiWord also happens to be a nice little word processor for a great deal of platforms.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img-netpos.html
http://www.internetundcomputer.de/be...creenshots.htm
http://akari.jurai.org/Ichino/beos.html

[chp]

Originally posted by Lord Kane
IIRC, its a veriation of linux. Whether it will support your h/w I couldn't say

Oh my GOD..... Think or Learn before to speak....

BEOS isn't UNIX of any Kind. It's a different OS.

[Kane]

Originally posted by chp


Oh my GOD..... Think or Learn before to speak....

BEOS isn't UNIX of any Kind. It's a different OS.

That's what I heard, I was obviously mis infromed, sorry.

[Syed Fawad]

Can anybody state te benefits of using BeOS?
and I also want to learn about internet browsers of BeOS.
Thanks.

[M.I.K.e7]

1. is it good?

Yes, but you could call me biased.

2. is it fast?

It isn't really much faster than other systems, but it is so much more responsive that working with it is not like waiting several seconds for the system to react even when it's under heavy load.

3. Can I run it as a secondary OS?

Yes.
See: http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=495

4. will it support my hardware?

Check:
http://web.archive.org/web/200110211...ist_intel.html
http://hardware.frizbe.net/

[M.I.K.e7]

Can anybody state te benefits of using BeOS?

It's not is big as Windows and not as hard to understand as Linux, boots in a few seconds (according to your system specs), and it probably has the best multitasking I've every experienced.

and I also want to learn about internet browsers of BeOS.

BeOS comes with its own browser called NetPositive, which only does HTML4 but nothing else (not JavaScript, CSS, etc.) but I use it for 90% of the time, because it's rather fast and you certainly don't get any popup Windows.
For the remaining sites where NetPositive doesn't work I use Mozilla, which has been ported to BeOS.
There is also a very old build of Opera (3.62), but that isn't really worth mentioning.

[M.I.K.e7]

PD: I'm not planning to get any other primary OS than winXP.... I just want to try something new.... which I can experiment with..... guess BeOS will be enough for me this time.....

I hope you have a FAT32 partition because Microsoft changed the NTFS in WinXP, which means that the BeOS boot loader won't be finding the partition image file on such an NTFS partition.

Another solution would be burning an installation CD:
http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=493
http://www.bebits.com/app/1930

[Takmadeus]

thamks mike7!!!!!

now I'll install it..... seems to be a cool OS...