OEM Tactics: Lessons to Learn from BeOS About GNU/Linux
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
A look at Microsoft's classic OEM tricks and how they continue to this date
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Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
A look at Microsoft's classic OEM tricks and how they continue to this date
Microweb News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Sunday is the btaperiode of Opera 4 official begun. Testers can raise on the site a Windows-version of the software. The business works beside it also at versions for Linux, Mac, BeOS and the EPOC-platform. The Linux-version is yet in the alpha-stage. [...]
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Sweet16 2.0b18 Sweet16 is the most capable Apple IIgs emulator for computers running Mac OS X. Based on the BeOS version of Sweet16, which was in turn based on the outlandishly popular Bernie ][ The Rescue, its code is mature and positioned to have more and better features added over time. Apple IIgs fanatics and nostalgic '80s junkies alike will love Sweet16! More information
JJinuxLand (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
I went to LinuxWorld Conference & Expo again this year like I always do. My mentor Leon Atkinson and I always go together. Here are a few notes. There was a guy who had a booth for the New York Times. I asked him what it had to do with Linux. He said, "Nothing, but I've sold about 40 subscriptions in the last two days and made about $2000. Wanna buy a subscription?" I felt like I had been hit with...
Collanos Blog (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
Windows Vista is not well adopted, Appleās next OS will not offer new features and Linux Desktops, at maximum, are a functional copy of the latter. Since the idea of using the Personal Computer as virtual office desktop no real innovation has happened. BeOS, the multimedia operating system, failed. And nowadays the office [...]
AmigaWorld - Amiga Community Portal (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
VICE 2.0 has been released. VICE is the Versatile Commodore Emulator, it emulates the Commodore C64, C128, VIC20, PET , PLUS4, the CBM-II, and it runs on Win32, Unix, DOS, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, SkyOS, AmigaOS, and GP2X systems. -Read More-
Times of India (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
State Courts Sentence Three To Life On Basis Of BEOS Profile.
OS News (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
A new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has arrived, aimed at both Linux newbies and content creators. Boasting "out of the box" multimedia codecs, the freely downloadable PC/OS incorporates the lightweight XFCE desktop, and is said to offer a similar layout to the groundbreaking, but ultimately doomed BeOS.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
As the country debates on the validity of narco-analysis and brain mapping tests, forensic experts now claimed that a new technology BEOS is more 'efficient and non-invasive' than the current scientific methods followed in the investigation of criminal cases.
OS News (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
It is no secret that us OSNews editors - Eugenia and I, mostly - have fond memories of the BeOS. So, whenever a handy BeOS feature makes its way into other operating systems, I zealously point it out in the articles or comments I write about them. Call it a harmless little compulsion. Anyway, a few days ago, while hanging around in Haiku's irc channel, a link to a screenshot showed an interesting little...
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: PC/OS - the BeOS of the Linux world News: openSUSE 11.0 Gold Master, Mandriva Flash 2008.1, Debian Installer beta, Linux Mint security advisory, two interviews with Mark Shuttleworth, gNewSense - paste and future, desktop FreeBSD, Sabayon 3.5 Released last week: ArtistX 0.5,....
Jangan pernah berhenti belajar (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Summary: Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. There are ports to FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9, EPOC, Zaurus PDA, MorphOS, Tru64/OSF, Minix, Solaris and DOS. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and [...]
OS News (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
BeOS (and Haiku) has a very powerful filesystem, thanks mostly to its extensive use of attributes and live queries to search through these attributes. In order to access these powerful features over a network, you need a network file system that also supports attributes and queries - cue BeServed, Kevin Musick's network file system. A few weeks ago, the code to BeServed was donated to the Haiku project...
OS News (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
BeOS (and Haiku) has a very powerful filesystem, thanks mostly to its extensive use of attributes and live queries to search through these attributes. In order to access these powerful features over a network, you need a network file system that also supports attributes and queries - cue BeServed, Kevin Musick's network file system. A few weeks ago, the code to BeServed was donated to the Haiku project...
[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Filed under: Handhelds If you can get past the tinge of disappointment in learning that something named the BeBook isnt actually the BeOS -based laptop youve been waiting for all these years, you may...