BeOS 5 Pro booting on my Optiplex GX1

[DAREALJMONEY]

Hey I just picked up an Optiplex GX1 but it has a password login required from the previous owner do you know how I can bypass this or reset it so I can get access?

[tweetyaja]

BeOS; later renamed to Haiku Operating System!

[jonvincent12]

Holy crap. I haven't used this since I had Win98SE on an IBM PC 300PL. It booted slowly and wasn't compatible. But I still like it.

[strogg6458]

i love beos. forever....: /

[DARKTHC]

LOL, I got a Dell Optiplex GX1 someone gave me (they were going to throw it out ) Using as a web server ! Also downloaded BeOS 5 Personal ... :)

[TheRULIX]

Bios Muy Lento,

La computadora eztha lenta???

Ponla con una computadora con:

Windows 3.11

1MB Ram

Procesador Intel i486DX 33MHz

ect..

y booteara mas rapido ^^

Ezztho ezz lo mazz diivertido,

¡¡ La Compu Vieja Le Gana A Una Mas Reciente !!

[didyaronamus]

BeOS aka Palm Operating System was the fastest, most reliable system at one time. I could run 5 mp3 players / 5 divx players at the same time on a PII 233 64 megs ram, 1.4gig hdd while Windows 98 / OS 9.1 couldn't even do 1/4 that. Multithreading, Multitasking, and the real first 64bit commercial OS out there.

[MetallicBill]

@didyaronamus I've never had luck getting Ubuntu to format, and I've bought a few, Linux based, but I go back to Windows, it's just so easy, really

[brashmadcap]

too bad be went the way of the dodo bird

[DeathNotice87]

How u can create the BE partition? i tried with a lot of distros, but i always fail.

ty.

[semco72057]

Yes you can run the BeOS on newer hardware, but it won't recognize the printers and some video drivers. It was good to play with, but couldn't do any actual work with it. Ubuntu Linux which came on my Dell Inspiron netbook loads so fast and runs great, and you can be productive with it.

[kody1314]

slow

[christo930]

About 23 seconds from when the bios turned over control to the boot sector, that is fast. BEos blows windows and linux out of the water, it's just a shame it didn't get the support it needed in the beginning.

[codeythesilent]

@christo930

Linux boots from power on to log in in about 15-20 seconds on my lap top. Try again.

[christo930]

@codeythesilent Linux is slow as shit

[Hack3rINC]

@christo930 ummmm no its not, try ubuntu 10.4

[christo930]

@Hack3rINC Every flavor of Linux I have ever used has been slow, especially in X.

[inventormaker]

i like the upgardeability in the gx1

[volure1]

at least get a decent single core lol there very very cheap like 15 dollar for a decent 3.4 ghz intel pentuin 4 ht if ur on a budget then get it overcloack will b enough for 4 ghz or a bit higher if u dont know how to bad i guess well do it in safe mode system memeory and dont just overclock it at least put it vol correctlly 2

[tsm32383]

wow slow bios

[john8520]

nah the bios is pretty snappy, the slow part is checking the ram.

[4C7X]

@john8520 hit space

[MetallicBill]

@john8520 More like looking for the IDE drives, if you go into Dell's BIOS turn off AUTO to skip a drive you know is not connected, it speeds it up a lot!! The RAM checking on Compaqs is much slower then on a Dell, it counts each MB in a second's time! On screen helpfully however.

I have one that shared a similar case to the GX110s, but it's more similar to the Dell GXa model, that one used a large tower and PCI/ISA riser along the bottom

[bacovia2004]

@john8520 had one of these pc,i wish i kept it....

[CrewRite]

Yeah, that runs very fast on a Mhz system, compared to Windows.

seems faster than Ubuntu.

[jdcrispe95]

@tsm32383 you think his bios is slow.. you should see mine :|

[MultiYippee]

@tsm32383 If you change the setting in the CMOS to not skip compatibility tests, it will be slow, otherwiseit is very fast.

[amontiel69]

I used BeOS back in 1998. It was the most amazing OS I'd ever seen. I still remember very clearly running several instances of the teapot and playing music and rendering a 3D composite image AND playing a movie, all at the SAME time without a single glitch. Too bad the company had to close. I loved BeOS back then and I did not know you could run it on more recent hardware such as your system. Might try that soon.

[kwagnert]

Try Haiku, because it's BeOS reborn! (But better) ;)

[llothar68]

AMD's Magny Cours with 12 Cores, 32 GB of RAM, 250 GB SSD Disk and BeOS. That would be a great Desktop.

Came on Haiku.

[strike4may]

wtf beos is

[john8520]

Be Operating System

[Btroisi13]

This works on intel? I thought it was only for PPC or something dumb like that :P

[Hey1276453]

They say BeOS is the perfect OS ever. Too bad it was closed... :-(

[CrewRite]

I think BeBits took it over.

[64mes]

BsOS 5 play music THE VINES - RIDE

[poopskinTheLiar]

Ah, i'm working with a dell Optiplex GX1 in my spare time that i'm borrowing (hopefully Mr. M will decide to give me) That has 64mb RAM and is running...Windows 95? 95 on a PIII? get that thing 2000 or 98!

...Anyway, i'm borrowing one and hope to own one someday.

[poopskinTheLiar]

for the record, it's a GX1-Small Form Factor.

[crazywin69]

i have a dell optiplex g1 it has a 400mhz intel celeron, 128mb ram, 4gb harddrive, 2mb vram, its intense lmfao im joking of course its so old

[gunthaarz]

BeOS could multitask multimedia video, several videos at a time onscreen on a normal machine without a single glitch back in 1996 ! it was the best operating system I've ever seen!

[nikeryen]

LOL the BIOS took longer to load than the BeOS! by the way you are very luck to have a BeOS compatible computer. I used to have an IBM aptiva which could run it on 32 bit colo thanks to its NVIDIA card... it was perfect except for the fact that the keyboard didn't work. I currently use Leopard and I still find BeOS better than Vista or OS X, if only it had survived...

[legokidnaruto]

sorry but you have a crapy pc!

[john8520]

It's not crappy, it's just really really old. It's not my main machine, either.

Back in 1998 you would have died to own this machine. ;)

[RevillutionDotCom]

@john8520 yeah that's back in 1998. It's 2010 buddy. Most people only keep their machines for 3 to 4 years tops. =P

[tutorial15]

My installing the boot on BootSkin on my Metron XP

[jadetraveler]

I used BeOS version 4 and up when Be was still around. It was a good OS. Too bad Be went out of business.

[huckdunsany]

Gotta love the ~25 second bootup time!