BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox

 (github.com)

31 points | by rguiscard 3 hours ago

5 comments

  • alberth 2 hours ago
    I recall dual booting BeOS circa 1999/2000, on my 486dx2-66.

    It was shockingly performant, especially with anything graphical.

    The difficulty was no apps.

    Brings back fond memories, nonetheless.

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    • majorchord 56 minutes ago
      I'm fairly certain that BeOS never supported the 486
    • cosmic_cheese 1 hour ago
      It was ridiculously fast on my family’s Dimension 4100 tower, which had a 750Mhz PIII in it. The 98SE install that machine shipped with was glacial in comparison, and though Win2K shrunken the gap dramatically it still wasn’t as fast as BeOS.

      I was able to find a decent number of apps on BeBits but a lot of stuff was missing.

    • multiplegeorges 2 hours ago
      It had a decent number of apps, I drove it as my primary OS for a while.

      Ended up using Linux, but it was a great OS for its time.

  • YVoyiatzis 1 hour ago
    If only for the UI. Back then, all bring white and beige and Windows blue screenofdesthblye. Be OS was pure joy, if only to play around with. Many third-party developers (remember sharewsre) took s liking to the Be aesthetic and ran away with it.
  • hexapus 1 hour ago
    I really do need to play with Haiku more.
  • mlmonkey 2 hours ago
    "Be" .... now that's a blast from the past! :-D
  • ranger_danger 1 hour ago
    Now just combine it with Cosmoe[1] so you can run it from Linux too.

    [1] https://pappp.net/?p=95060

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    • PAPPPmAc 1 hour ago
      How odd to come into a thread and find a link to my share-with-note (see name/url) instead of a link to the OSNews article it's a share of.