BeOS

[dracon]

I was looking to play around with BeOS, but which one should I go with?

[corrosive23]

BeOS is dead. Palm bought it and killed it. You can try something like zeta or blue eyed os. They are further developments of beos

[tdg]

Theres also a spin off called OpenBeOS, but haven't tried it. You can still find BeOS 5 personal edition around, but it's pretty dated now since BeOS died a year or two ago.

[skritch]

Originally posted by corrosive23
BeOS is dead. Palm bought it and killed it. You can try something like zeta or blue eyed os. They are further developments of beos

BeOS was dead before Palm bought the intellectual property. I went to the auction of the company's stuff.

[Zwitterion]

Just curious, but what do you need BeOS for?

[dracon]

I don't need it for anything, and I know that there are a few opensource projects and whatnot going around. However, I just want to know which one is the most full featured.

[Morpheus256]

beos 5 pro
ive ran it, and it was a great os, if there was more software for it, it would have really taken off, the multimedia features it had were amazing, on my dual p3 550, i couldnt do anything to slow it down.

[NewBlackDak]

Go the the openBeOS website (http://openbeos.org/), and check it out.

I DLed it from BeBits (http://bebits.com/), and installed on a few older machines just to play with.

It's a well written OS for Multimedia stuff, and works VERY WELL if all your hardware is supported.