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It's great, there are even recent ports of Firefox, Mozilla and VLC. It is still a very usable OS.
If you want to try R5 you will need older hardware to do it easily. I use a Dell Optiplex with a 600 Celeron, 256MB Ram, Onboard Intel 810 graphics chipset, SB Live Value and an onboard 3Com NIC. It absoulutely flies on this system. I didn't need to configure anything, it worked out of the box. It doesn't like DHCP so it has a static IP.
I tried Zeta and didn't like it at all, it was slow and buggy on my system.
Try www.bebits.com they have a free version called BeOS MAX, it is based on a free version of R5.
Hi again elliott. I am finally running BeOS . I simply loved this system. I'm using BeOS developer that I got from beosonline (I think). Unfortunatelly, I could not install in my PC. I've a relatively new machine and it was not possible to boot. The machine kept rebooting with BeOS PE. With the developer and Max, I went a little further, until you have to agree with the license to proceed. Keyboard and mouse stopped working right there.
However, it runs great on Vmware. I'm planning to get an older machine just to tweak with BeOS a little. I also tried Zeta OS Live CD 1.1 and it rocks. I'm going to be a volunteer with Zeta OS project, if everything goes fine.
Thanks again for your tips. They were valuable. Now I'm in love with another OS too
P.S: sorry for going off-topic, but I had to reply
Regards!
Last edited by Mega Man X; 12-16-2005 at 06:43 AM.
I just got a P1 150 Laptop, I installed R5 Pro on it as soon as I got it. It runs pretty good, If I can find a wireless card that will work in BeOS I will be in heaven.
I leave Linux and FreeBSD on my newer systems, everything older that is compatible gets BeOS.
If you haven't found it already HERE is a hardware compatiblity list.
The Haiku(OpenBeOS) project is coming along very nice. They are able to boot from a CD, which is a huge milestone, no CD images available yet though.
Last edited by elliott678; 12-16-2005 at 08:31 AM.
Also switch to the Mac/Aqua/Tiger/whatever window decorations... though they look like candy don;t really make sense IMHO. Red for close makes some sense, but why should minimize be green? I guess Apple wanted to prove a picture (if poorly utilized) can also convey less information than a single word, forget 1000.
Always nice to see a WM shot. Is that bar a Gdesklet? It looks nice. The only one I've seen that handles scaling that well is in E17.
Yeah the bar is the Gdesklet... I believe it's simply called starterbar. I've been using the desklet for the past few weeks, and I'm pretty happy w/ the results.
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. I simply loved this system. I'm using BeOS developer that I got from beosonline (I think). Unfortunatelly, I could not install in my PC. I've a relatively new machine and it was not possible to boot. The machine kept rebooting with BeOS PE. With the developer and Max, I went a little further, until you have to agree with the license to proceed. Keyboard and mouse stopped working right there.
