BeOS The incredible OS that disappeared (part 1) Be Operating System

(HAIKU is the NEW 2009 BeOS! :) BeOS! The best multimedia operating system ever invented! Movie is showing old dual P2-266! They tried 6 Avi's parallel on a Pentium 4-1500 mhz or 23 Mp3's parallel,hectic! ;-), also no crash with scratched CD's! etc. Hardware support only till P4 and Riva TNT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29

Haiku is a software project, begun in 2001 to create a free and open source operating system compatible with BeOS. The project was known as OpenBeOS until ...
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Download BeOS 5 Free Personal Edition: http://www.bebits.com/app/2680
Reviews: http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts... and http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/...
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBq56O...


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[gunthaarz]

I think HAIKU OS has even (just recently) reached alpha stage in developement

[gunthaarz]

Nope. It lives on as the Operating system now named HAIKU

[ukclear]

Beos was a great operating system, without wanting to offend the linux fans, beos was much more ready back 10 years ago to take on MS windows on the desktop than linux has been for the last few years. its only really now with netbooks that linux is really starting to be put forward as a real alternative to windows on the desktop

[Keruaran]

"ready" in a technical sense but it was never "ready" in a broader sense. Be as a company was somewhat naive and was never prepared, nor stood a chance against the anti-competitive tactics that Microsoft would use against Be in the market.

Aside from technical issues, the advantage GNU/Linux has is that although Microsoft through its anti-competitive mendacity could sink one company, or ten, but FOSS is not a company, it is a movement.

Also, the penguin does happen to have powerful friends...

[pefu1906]

what happened to BeOS HQ? O_O

[yaroslavkhnygin]

@mikeunavailable OK, try to watch YouTube in BeOS. ;)

[mikeunavailable]

@yaroslavkhnygin Agreed. My point (which was not at all clear) is that BeOS -- a vintage OS -- running on a vintage machine seems to be capable of running more tasks smoothly than a modern OS running on a modern machine. Also, the older programs (apps) were probably much more optimized for speed than the newest apps.

[yaroslavkhnygin]

The hype around BeOS and Haiku reminds me of Apple zealotry, if not something even worse.

[yaroslavkhnygin]

@HypnoToad72 Mac OS X has very little of BSD components, most of them are in userspace. Core technologies like I/O Kit, Cocoa, LLVM/Clang and Quartz are much newer than any of BeOS.

[yaroslavkhnygin]

@mikeunavailable Every vintage OS will run "far more responsive than Ubuntu and Win 7" on your machine.

[yaroslavkhnygin]

@ukclear Two years have passed: netbooks are dying off, GNU/Linux distributions have the same market share. Nothing changed, FOSS is stagnating like Apple in 90s. I hope Haiku will change the game.

[static1994]

Holy crap thats awesome! I hear that BeOS is still around. where can i get a Copy?

[kyoko277]

2:35

OMG it's Chuck Norris! No wonder it disappeared...

[hd4ms]

that monitor looks vintage - 1988 maybe?