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Operating Systems => Not Quite Mainstream OSes => Topic started by: 1000schnauzers on 12 January 2003, 06:05

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: 1000schnauzers on 12 January 2003, 06:05

I've got a stack of PC games knee-deep that I never get to play, so I'm building a gaming machine.  I'm looking into BeOS, since I heard it's a good gaming OS and I'm loathe to put any more M$ bullshit on my machines than I absolutely have to. Does anybody use it?  Will it support any game that's supposed to run in Win?

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: choasforages on 12 January 2003, 10:03

probaly not unless you use some wine and deep voodoo magic, but i have used it and it is sweet.

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: TheQuirk on 12 January 2003, 10:21

No, your games won't run, but BeOS (no more, Be they closed) is firggen KICK ASS. I even talk to one of the kernel developers sometimes :) . (he made his AIM publicly available).

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 12 January 2003, 16:21

Im interested in this OS, how good are they on Laptops?  Infact how good is their hardware support.

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: choasforages on 12 January 2003, 20:53

pretty good, you can download it at www.bebits.com (http://www.bebits.com) it supports a fair amount of hardware but i havn't used it as much as linux or the *bsd's. as for it being closed, their is a project  called openbeos that is rebuilding it. but it's still in its infancy.

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: 1000schnauzers on 12 January 2003, 21:16

Hrmmm...OK  I was under the impression, from what I had heard, that BeOS had been created specifically with gaming in mind....I'm trying to not have any M$ or Winblows in my home, but it looks like I'm gonna hafta if I wanna run all these games. And I'm no voodoo programmer (yet), so that rules that out. Blast.   :mad:

[ January 12, 2003: Message edited by: 1000schnauzers ]

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: TheQuirk on 12 January 2003, 22:49

Uh, GAMING OS?

Hehe.

More like a media OS.

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: Calum on 13 January 2003, 14:07

i have to say:

http://openbeos.org/ (http://openbeos.org/)

no discussion of BeOS would be complete without that link nowadays.

Title: Who here uses BeOS?
Post by: Interscope on 13 January 2003, 16:48

Why not just get Linux with WineX(CVS)?