Does anyone else miss BeOS?

[MatteBlack]

Seriously, it was pretty cool!

[RAV TUX]

Seriously, it was pretty cool!

Thats why many have hope for Haiku (http://haiku-os.org/)

[hanzomon4]

I have only been able to use haiku in Vmware and qemu, it dies on Virtualbox. Sadly I can't test things like media because I don't know how to gain access to the files on the host. I tried to get beos-max to install but the cd was just a coaster when I tried to boot it. I can't wait to really try this thing though, they it seems to have some good ideas.

[ynnhoj]

Thats why many have hope for Haiku (http://haiku-os.org/)
i try not to get my hopes up too much, but haiku does seem very promising.

[pelle.k]

networking to host is started by default with qemu! and yes, networking does work with the emulated device under qemu these days as well ;)
might i suggest you use wget from haiku terminal? (you'll have to write down the url on a piece of paper until proper clipboard support is supported though)

Too bad the images you get from daily builds are so small, you'll have to move everything to a larger BFS image if you wan't to add more than a couple of megabytes though....
Either way, it isn't really meant for day to day usage since it's not even alpha yet.

[smoker]

never tried it, or haiku, but the more os's the better, maybe try them at some point.

[RAV TUX]

never tried it, or haiku, but the more os's the better, maybe try them at some point.

I am not sure if it is still available but Zeta was also based on BeOS.

[FoolsGold_MKII]

The only thing I remember about BeOS was a teapot. Shows how much I cared.

[justin whitaker]

I loved BeOS. I even bought GoBe Productive (fantastic!)...too bad it went the way of the dodo.

[eddieb]

I have 25yrs plus in computers and can say BEos WAS the best operating system ever.

[sabrewolf2006]

Oh yeah, definitely miss that ..

I really hope haiku starts roaring along so I can use it outside of an emulator...

I think I still have a copy of Zeta (which has unfortunately gone kaput now :( ) floating around somewhere.. That was ace with its nvidia drivers working OOTB.. lol MILLions of kettles rendering 363.6 fps :D

[ijustam]

I only got to use BeOS briefly (after the company had gone under) and, amazingly, it would detect my winmodem (back in 2000-2001ish) 1/100 dial attempts. While this sounds crazy, it was pretty awesome at the time.

[3rdalbum]

I didn't actually use BeOS back in the days that all of you miss, but I do remember seeing a claim that the BeOS could rotate a 3D cube with videos playing on each face of the cube, without becoming unduely bogged-down.

Funnily enough, someone I know saw a similar thing on Youtube, this time with Beryl and Ubuntu, and it made him decide to try and break out of Microsoft's lock-in and move to Linux.

[Canis familiaris]

Makes me remember how i tried making my Keyboard working in BeOS with no avail.

[BoyOfDestiny]

Looks amazing, especially for its time.
It's interesting that Apple might have bought it at one point and made it the base of their next OS...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beos

I wonder how it would have faired had not Microsoft abused its monopoly.
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3073811


I do miss the time when multiple OS's and different machines were common... Although maybe we are getting there again ;)

[Drmgiver]

I do agree that BeOS was a good operating system. There was however one inherent flaw. I need to use USB. That in my opinion was the reason it died.

[mips]

Yeah I also miss BeOS but my fondest memories are still of AmigaOS or if you want to call it Kickstart & Workbench whatever. Never seen something perform so well with so little cpu & ram resources.