The Be Lives! 52
An anonymous reader submits: "As reported on the OS News:
BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is based on the original BeOS 5 PE with an additional number of drivers, add-ons, AthlonXP/Pentium4 patches and more software. It includes new development tools from the OpenBeOS team but you will also be able to select the old tools. This is an ideal way to install BeOS 5 off a bootable CD image, for all those who wanted to try out BeOS but they were unable to do so because of the bugs/drivers and patches BeOS 5 PE needs to have applied into it before it successfully run on or support most modern PCs. BeBits has an overview of the files included in the package, and downloads for the Be Max in parts or as a whole (all 213MB). Enjoy!"
Um (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Um (Score:1)
Awesome! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Awesome! (Score:1)
Corrections: (Score:1)
b) Where was it reported on OSNews? Can't find the article anywhere
Re:Corrections: (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=2212 [osnews.com]
asside from the sarcasm (Score:1)
Re:asside from the sarcasm (Score:2)
I'm not too sure why a link to a single mirror was posted.
Re:asside from the sarcasm (Score:1)
I can't figure out (Score:5, Funny)
To Be, or not to Be... (Score:2, Funny)
learn something new every day (Score:4, Funny)
(-1, redundant, offtopic, whatever, whatever)
Re:learn something new every day (Score:1)
Is it still crippleware? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is it still crippleware? (Score:2, Informative)
If you want to install PE on a partition, you just load your windows-based PE installation, format the partition, run the installer, intall the bootmanager, then reboot. Full details can be found using google. If you want to install it under linux -
http://www.bebits.com/app/2680
has the disk image and the image for the floppy bootloader.
If you want to make a bootable cd, search for bootable be cd at bebits.com (which contains an el-torito cd track image of the above floppy bootloader) and follow the instructions found there.
Re:Is it still crippleware? (Score:1)
Re:Is it still crippleware? (Score:2)
I never had any problem getting MP3s to play. They just worked... very Mac like... moreso than OS-X even.
I never held out for SSL in NetPositive. I thought the Mozilla people would blow it away eventually.
I still find that I wish MacOSX could do some BeOS things... like the fluid abstraction of any audio type in the Finder.. and burning CDs more like BeOS...
All BeOS would have needed was good hardware accelerated OpenGL drivers and it would have become a preferred gaming platform. I would have rebooted into BeOS just to play games. The game IDE would have followed very quickly...
OSNews (Score:1)
Re:RADEON (Score:5, Informative)
Tying two stories together... (Score:4, Interesting)
Who is making releases anyway? Who has their paws on the source? Surely not Palm?
-- Bob
Re:Tying two stories together... (Score:1)
Re:Tying two stories together... (Score:4, Informative)
Palm is planning on using Be-style technology in an upcoming update to PalmOS, according to The Register [theregister.co.uk]. I believe a lot of Be's old workers work for Palm now.
Re:Tying two stories together... (Score:1)
And I can do 2 math operations in one step if I want to. (hint: divide by 2) There's only one math error there.
And fuckin' a that thing gets a lot of comments.
the answer is (Score:1)
Palm has apparently said they will sell the BeOS source code for 2 million dollars. Anyone know a generous benefactor?
Re:the answer is (Score:2)
Got links?
Re:the answer is (Score:2)
More than 1GB of RAM? (Score:1)
Jeremy
BONE (Score:1)
Ok, but only one question... (Score:2)
I Tried This (Score:1)
Re:I Tried This (Score:1)
Et tu, Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
If someone posted this in the Slashdot Linux section (if it had one -- it doesn't need one, for reasons that are pretty obvious to all), we'd be virtually buried under a blizzard of "Be isn't Free Software/Be isn't Linux/How dare you compare Be with Linux" postings. Think about it& -- you know it's true. Of course, I'm going to get hammered with negative moderations for suggesting that Slashdot itself has joined with the BSD Is Dying troll in wanton BSD-bashing, but how else can we interpret this?
I try to be impartial; hell, I've run Linux since Yggsadril, and the computer nearest my left foot is running RedHat 7.2 (plus a customized kernel and security patches) while the one nearest my right foot runs FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. I read the LKML and a few freebsd-* mailing lists. My Alpha runs Linux, since Linux supports it better than any flavor of BSD. And I firmly believe that Linux is the best shot the free software community has against Microsoft. And, of course, Linux != Slashdot, so I'll continue to use and support it as much as I always have.
But now I have to say that the anti-BSD bias on Slashdot, which has been strongly hinted at before, has become starkly obvious. The mentality of many Slashdotters -- that Linux and BSD are somehow in competition rather than allies in the battle against Redmond -- seems to be infiltrating Slashdot itself. It's been subtle in the past, evidenced when major BSD events are simply ignored while random fluff gets reported. Now, it comes right out in the open.
I guess I've been in denial.
None of this is to be taken as slander against Be, which is about as fine a closed-source, not-really-free product as I've ever seen. It doesn't belong in the BSD section, however, and putting it here should be as much an insult against Be as it is against BSD.
Re:Et tu, Slashdot? (Score:2)
Surely, this wasn't front-page material, and decided to stuff it in to a section somewhere. But since there's no "Exotic operating systems" or BeOS section in the section list, they decided to stuff it in the BSD section, because they didn't know where else to stuff it.
I myself would have put it in the Developers section, or the Apple section (Since Mr. Gossee used to work at Apple). I don't blame them.
Be glad that they compare Be to the mighty fine BSD line of OSes. Heck, Be's in our camp. Yaay.
Re:Et tu, Slashdot? (Score:2)
Glad to see this (Score:1)
I'm one of them, and I don't want to think I'm the only one. Open source is good, but as far as Closed-source OS's go, there was none better than BeOS, and I doubt there ever will be. OS X might be it's sucessor, but fine as it is, it's raw speed is but a pale shadow of what Be Inc. Achieved several years before. I won't bitch about OS X, or praise Be for all it had that was good...
I'll just say again I'm glad to see the BeOS community alive and well.
Keep on coding, guys... I'm with ya.
aha... (Score:2)
BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is Based on BeOS 5 PE with a number of drivers, add-ons, Athlon XP Patch , P4 Boot img , software. It includes new development tools from the OpenBeOS team Web site, but you will also be able to select the old tools. And contains only freeware and shareware demos. All code it contains is legal under the MIT, GPL, or LGPL licenses.
Not even any mention of BSD licensed code? Well just what is this doing in teh BSD section? Silly editors...
Ugh (Score:1)
The default resolution has been moved from 640x480x60hz to 1024x768. WHY?! It was originally that way because not all monitors can do 1024x768! UGH.
What's more, it probably has a bunch of driver conflicts, since all he's doing is supplying the patches to the drivers, so any PCI IDs that were removed from the original driver won't be in the new drivers and the hardware won't be detected.
This is not a troll! I'm just stating all that Max Edition really is -- a dumb modification anyone could've made.