On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:57:05 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, BE for some reason went belly up. I don't know why. :| Needless > to say I was heartbroken. I was going to use it next. > > Out of curiousity, is it still available? Palm bought Be and is sitting on the technology; the smart money is that parts of it will be incorporated in PalmOS 6 (not the new version 5, which is really "version 1 for a different CPU" as Palm and licencees are moving from Motorola to ARM as the CPU vendor of choice for their handhelds). A 'personal edition' of BeOS can be downloaded but is old and isn't being developed any further. There exists an installer which allows BeOS 5 to co-exist with a Linux installation by (basically) installing the OS and a 'partition' inside a huge file; unfortunately, it only recognises ext2-formatted partitions to start with :( http://www.bebits.com/app/2680 The only way to get anywhere at all with BeOS on the desktop seems to be outside Palm, and OpenBeOS is trying: http://www.openbeos.org/ The authors can't be faulted for ambition (first recreate an existing closed source OS as open source, then proceed thereto!) and are certainly having a terrific shot at it. Alastair
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