Anyone still have a BeBox?

[NulloModo]

Hey,

Not sure how many of you remember or ever used it, but a few years back there was a great operating system called BeOS that never quite got off the ground. It has a lot of the features that make MacOS wonderful before MacOS ever had them, and it ran on very low end hardware well.

I've had an old PII - 333Mhz system sitting in my closet for a while and I just recently remembered I had BeOS installed on a second partition on the HD. That has been enough for me to decide to get it hooked up somewhere and play around with it again, but I am wondering about useful things I can do with it.

Does anyone here still have BeOS installed anywhere? What's there to do with it that's worthwhile nowadays?

 

[Shadow2531]

I haven't messed with it in a while, but I used to play with both BeOS and QNX. They were both pretty cool.

I even attempted to only use BeOS and nothing else. That worked out for a bit, but couldn't stand that Opera and Mozilla were not pushing out versions for it fast enough.

 

[ksar123]

BeOS was awesome, but unfortuneatly its pretty difficult to get working properly with newer hardware, since development was halted when it was bought by Palm. Another company is developing a clone of BeOS from scratch, called Zeta. It looks promising.