Have you tried BeOS personal edition?

[ToBeMe]

I used Be......and had almost everything available to me regarding apps.! You see, I have a very good friend that is/was a developer @ BE..........I liked it!.......now, the down side........regardless of what propaganda is posted, there will be no further development of BeOS in the near future... my frined did not get "axed".......but I talked with him via email today and all developement for the foreseable future will be for Sony and BeIA........

 

[Brazen]

That is sad to hear.

 

[BCinSC]

Who is currently using 4.5.2? How about those running 5.0 - are you running 5.01, 5.02, or 5.03?

 

[kuk]

Rumor has it that BeOS will become open source in the coming weeks. Free doesn't correspond exactly to OpenSource ... BeOS 5 may be free, but it's not open source

I hope that when it does, more software will come out for it ... I have a copy here installed waiting to be really used.

 

[DaHitman]

Here is what is generating those rumors, due to recent domain registrations:

$ whois openbeos.org
Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: OPENBEOS.ORG
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: AUTH10.NS.WCOM.COM
Name Server: BE.BE.COM
Updated Date: 25-sep-2000


Domain Name: OPENBEOS.ORG

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Administrator, System (AS2829-ORG) dns@BE.COM
Be, Inc.
800 El Camino Real
Suite 400
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
650-462-4100
Fax- 650-462-4129

Record last updated on 25-Sep-2000.
Record expires on 25-Sep-2001.
Record created on 25-Sep-2000.
Database last updated on 11-Apr-2001 07:46:00 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

BE.BE.COM 208.243.144.2
AUTH10.NS.WCOM.COM 198.6.100.21



They have also recently registered openbeos.com and openbeos.net.

 

[Calin]

Yes, I tried it, but I was disappointed that my Creative Labs 16 was not recognized, and I didn't find a way to install it. In rest, it has a very special look - in fact it is completely different of anything I've seen.
Anyway, download it and try it. You will like it, you will hate it, or neither one, but it is something that you need to see. For it is nothing like it, in all that I tried and probably in all that you tried until now.

 

[Chriz]

Soundblaster 16 is not supported out of the box but there is a very good driver at www.bebits.com that should work great.