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Posted by Hemos on Saturday December 22, 2001 @12:09PM from the and-i-feel-fine dept.

JRAC writes "Be Inc. has replaced their web site's entire contents with information on the sale of Be to Palm. Stock holders can find all relevant info on the Stock Information page. BeOS 5 Personal Edition is no longer available from the site. Looks like it's time to hit the mirrors. Try ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/beos for files. " The official sale was approved just over a month ago.

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Finally, an answer to the question... (Score:2, Funny)

by Dicky ( 1327 ) writes: <slash3@vmlinuz.org> on Saturday December 22, 2001 @12:32PM (#2741441) Homepage

To Be, or not to Be? That is the question.
And the answer, unfortunately, is not to Be. I don't know much about the company, but I played with the OS, and it was pretty nice. I liked the GUI enough that my Afterstep desktop is clearly BeOS-inspired...

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Hopefully (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday December 22, 2001 @02:01PM (#2741669)

Hopefully Linux will be next...

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