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> > I've wondered about this myself. SGI based a significant portion of
> > their business on multimedia Unix boxes; granted the OS they used was
> > IRIX and the platform w
> I'd love to see more Multimedia development for Linux. It has been pretty
> bad up to this point, ie, a serious studio, radio station, musician
> wouldn't look at it for anything other than a file/print/web/ftp server.
> Although I should mention that I love doing bitmap manipulation with the
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in Holmquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Hi Michael,
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Hi Michael,
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From: "Michael R. Jinks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: BeOs
> I've wondered about this myself. SGI based a significant portion of
> their business on m
eared toward threaded
> > applications, and it has a very fast windowing system. X is probably
> > going to bottleneck a lot of the stuff that BeOS does just to show
> > off.
>
> I've wondered about this myself. SGI based a significant portion of
> their busine
cristian wrote:
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> I tried something called BeOs and seemed to me some kind of Linux.
> Am I right ?
Nope. Based on a completely different code base. There are some
superficial similarities thanks to Be porting much of the GNU software.
though.
> I don't like it
?
>
> I doubt it. Be's native API is really geared toward threaded
> applications, and it has a very fast windowing system. X is probably
> going to bottleneck a lot of the stuff that BeOS does just to show
> off.
I've wondered about this myself. SGI based a significant p
these answers are pretty much right on the money. one thing i would add
is that BeOS is more similar to Windows than it is to Linux (not multiuser
etc). BUT... BeOS appears to be much nicer than windows from a technical
standpoint, and would make a nice windows replacement (assuming Be could
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, cristian wrote:
> I tried something called BeOs and seemed to me some kind of Linux. Am
> I right ?
Nope. BeOS includes a shell, and some (GNU??) fairly common *NIX
utilities. You can even get emacs for BeOS. All the same, BeOS is not a
Linux or UNIX operating
Hy, everybody
I tried something called BeOs and seemed to me some
kind of Linux. Am I right ?
They say it is made for multimedia. Indeed the
multimedia facilities are nice.
I don't like it because it is non-transparent like
Windows?
Maybe some of you tried it.
Would it be possib
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The BeOS docs that I read with r3 said that BeOS uses lilo as the
bootloader by default. Unfortunately, I was never able to install BeOS
because booting the installer hung my system. I guess I'm stuck waiting
for r4 to test it m
Try PowerBoot
from Blueskyinnovations. I did and it works fine.
If I remember correctly from the blurb it handles BeOS and much more.
Check their site for this though. They do rattle off a long list
of O/S's though.
You will probably need to boot from a DOS disk to install it though!!
GBNSCHBACH wrote:
>
> Would you consider a re-install, so as to be able to use system commander
> or at least lilo? Set up a dos partition of 80 or 100mb. then make it
> bootable,
> formatted, etc. next install System Commander, or Linux with Lilo.
>
> --
> PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,
Would you consider a re-install, so as to be able to use system commander
or at least lilo? Set up a dos partition of 80 or 100mb. then make it
bootable,
formatted, etc. next install System Commander, or Linux with Lilo.
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING L
GBNSCHBACH wrote:
>
>
>If you have a DOS partition, get system commander. Then you can
> boot 2 or 3 or 4 OS's. Oh yeah, and if it does not work, you can always
> restore the original partition table..
>
> Good Luck,
> Greg
>
> --
> PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata a
If you have a DOS partition, get system commander. Then you can
boot 2 or 3 or 4 OS's. Oh yeah, and if it does not work, you can always
restore the original partition table..
Good Luck,
Greg
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PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
http:/
hello,
has anyone had any experience in running red hat linux and beos
on an intel box together (dual boot sort of thing)?
i just received my beos (r3 for intel) this morning and am anxious
to hear of anyone's experiences before trying the install tonight.
many thanks in advance.
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