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thylvin · 4th Aug 2011, 03:05 AM

I would like to know who of you know this Operating System or has used it before.

Just a little lowdown on it.

co-founded my engineers of both Microsoft and Apple. it is according to me the best OS built for multi-media there is. It is build on the Unix platform with Apple's multi-media capabilities and with windows vastly customizability.

You can open several movies at the same time, yet it never hanged and which ever movie screen had the focus, that sound is streamed to your speakers, change the focus to another movie and that sound is streamed to your speakers.

i once opened 50 movies at the same time and never once experienced a lag.

Unfortunately the company did close down so development on it was stopped. Several other companies grabbed the source code and developed their own version of the operating system but it never was like it's original. The personal edition R5 is free to download and can be installed next to windows on its own hard drive or live inside a single file on the same drive!

If any of you know this please let me know, i would like to get hold of a OS that is as good as BeOS and if any of you actually own the full version of R5, i would like to take it off your hands.

Zontar · 4th Aug 2011, 07:17 AM

You can try Haiku.

thylvin · 4th Aug 2011, 08:22 AM

thx i'll check it out

starfish · 6th Aug 2011, 09:40 PM

BeOS, haven't thought about that in years. Back in the day I really wanted a BeBox. They pop up from time to time, but they go for crazy high prices.

Though I didn't think that BeOS was UNIX based. I thought it was a completely new kernel design.

4th Aug 2011, 03:05 AM	#1
thylvin Green thumb Regular Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Windhoek Age: 32 Posts: 861 Join Date: Jun 2011	BeOS I would like to know who of you know this Operating System or has used it before. Just a little lowdown on it. co-founded my engineers of both Microsoft and Apple. it is according to me the best OS built for multi-media there is. It is build on the Unix platform with Apple's multi-media capabilities and with windows vastly customizability. You can open several movies at the same time, yet it never hanged and which ever movie screen had the focus, that sound is streamed to your speakers, change the focus to another movie and that sound is streamed to your speakers. i once opened 50 movies at the same time and never once experienced a lag. Unfortunately the company did close down so development on it was stopped. Several other companies grabbed the source code and developed their own version of the operating system but it never was like it's original. The personal edition R5 is free to download and can be installed next to windows on its own hard drive or live inside a single file on the same drive! If any of you know this please let me know, i would like to get hold of a OS that is as good as BeOS and if any of you actually own the full version of R5, i would like to take it off your hands. __________________ You are who you are, unique and a beautiful person. You are the only one of your kind and let no one tell you any diffrent, they are usualy jealous of you. F the people We are the people!!!!

4th Aug 2011, 07:17 AM	#2
Zontar Mister Funny Man Full Member Gender: Male Location: Binghampton, NY Posts: 1,539 Join Date: Oct 2010	Re: BeOS You can try Haiku. __________________ Get up and open your eyes...Don't ever let yourself ever fall down... Get through it and learn how to fly...I know you'll find a way...today. -Days of the New, "Dirty Road"

4th Aug 2011, 08:22 AM	#3
thylvin Green thumb Regular Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Windhoek Age: 32 Posts: 861 Join Date: Jun 2011	Re: BeOS thx i'll check it out __________________ You are who you are, unique and a beautiful person. You are the only one of your kind and let no one tell you any diffrent, they are usualy jealous of you. F the people We are the people!!!!

6th Aug 2011, 09:40 PM	#4
starfish This space for lease. Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: I like guys Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Hippie Town, Alberta of the US Age: 31 Posts: 2,111 Join Date: Nov 2008	Re: BeOS BeOS, haven't thought about that in years. Back in the day I really wanted a BeBox. They pop up from time to time, but they go for crazy high prices. Though I didn't think that BeOS was UNIX based. I thought it was a completely new kernel design. __________________ All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. --Thomas J. Watson