RSSBe, Inc. Delivers as Promised
By Aaron Dobbins | Published March 28, 2000, 5:23 PM
Be, Inc. has made good on its promise to deliver the high-power digital media operating system BeOS 5.0 to consumers free of charge. Menlo Park, CA was buzzing this morning when Be, Inc. made the operating system available for download from its Web site, be.com. Tagging along with the operating system is the developers kit and a library of programs at no extra cost.
BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition, which is available at no cost from Be, Inc., has a unique feature which allows it to run from within the Windows Operating system as a regular file. Upon executing the application, it reboots your system and runs BeOS from within a completely enclosed file on your hard drive.
will there be a personal version of BeOS that don't require windows or linux to install?
i want a standalone operating system (free to download)
don't wanna keep stupid windows 95 and 2000 and NT4 on my machine.
tired of microsoft.
thanx.
nova897@hotmail.com
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|yes, its the pro version and it will be out in a few weeks....
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|...but thepro version isn't free. This guy wants a free lunch apparently. Fork over the $70 bucks if you like the personal edition. I'm personally waiting until more mainstream apps work their way over before I commit. Until then Be will just have to run on my older single processor P100 :(
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|How does one get the darn thing to work? I installed rebooted and it gets past the boot screen to a blue screen and freezes. Are we sure MS dopesnt produce this OS? BeMS?
If you have any ideas email me at klethron@kephi.com
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|This may not work, but there's an article at www.benews.com that covers how you can use the personal edition for windows to install a windowless version. It's in an article called "overcoming the limits", or something similiar, and as I write this (4-03-00, 0700 edt), a link to it is near the top of their front page
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|Everything has gone fine so far but no mouse cursor which makes it a little tricky. The menus highlight fine and things can be selected if you get it just right. Open the mouse control panel and all the appropriate buttons click. Video appears to operate fine. Can't figure it out. I have a MS Intellimouse.
Anyone have any ideas?
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|I'm having the same problem. I have no idea how to fix this except maybe using the mouse in PS/2 mode instead of USB.
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|I have the same problem. According to www.benews.com, this will go away if you create a bootdisk and launch be from said floppy.
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|hey everyone...i had been using BeOS 4.5 and loved it and couldn't wait until 5 came out. i got rid of the partition for be and installed 5. now i have some problems... can anyone solve them?
1 - i cannot start be from windows... after my pc restarts, the be startup screen comes on and freezes while trying to read from the a: drive
2 - i can only start be by using the startup disk
3 - once in be i cannot minimize any windows
thanks to anyone who can help = o )
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|I had no problem installing and configuring BeOS, my soundcard worked right away and everything is running smoothly. The only two problems I have is that I don't know how to configure my modem (Motorala SM 56k) and the video playback is just awfull with avi's. Well if you can help me solve those problem, just go ahead! :o) Even with these little problems, I think BeOS is a great operating system with plenty of potential. Not bad at all for a 44mb download! What's the size again of win2k or millenium 200-300mb??hehe
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|There's a difference here between the sizes of Win2k, Millnium, and BeOS5. You BUY Windows, and it is delivered to you on a CD. The file size is irrelevant, and Microsoft packs as much as they can onto the CD. Online Help, the Resource Packs, video tours, etc. It would be very easy for MS to strip the file size down, but it would be stupid to do so. You're obviously a pirate. Youre an unethical, immoral turd.
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|Maybe you don't know that BeOS Pro will have a cd with all the crap we don't need. Who the hell cares about video tour of an OS. And for your information, I'm not a software pirate and before you accuse somebody maybe you should think more(or just think would be a good start).
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|gengis,
So you're going to be the one to throw the first stone, huh? Cool your jets man and don't go around blindly accusing people like that.
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|mine worked fine...i have 4 drives and chose to install it on the same drive as my W2k install...NTFS. Maybe sharing the same drive as W2k is the reason the Virtual Memory won't go...says I have insufficient space for it. Oh well, I have a blank drive to install too, we'll see.
And if you've checked my other BeOS post under the release notice...Real3d...you guys suck...make some drivers for your old video cards, they're not that outdated, and you don't have that many different products to support you bums. hehe
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|I had a flawless install, and I really like the start up time. The only minor problem I am having is I only get 2 speaker output on my speakers. I have 2 out jacks on my Diamond MX300, and only 1 works (which means no subwoofer :[). Any ideas?
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|Since they just added support for the MX300 with this release, I would wager that only the minimum specs of the card are functional, hence the lack of four speaker support. Hey, just be glad it works!
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|I installed Be on my Windows 2000 (NTFS) with no problems what so ever... now the task of gettin my modem and sound hooked up. Be is moving along very well, and I am pleased with what I see.
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|I was unable to successfully boot BeOS 5 on this Dell NT workstation. Upon booting from the boot floppy created during the install, I was thrown into the kernel debugger due to BeOS being unable to locate the BeOS image (which had been installed to D:\BeOS). This was the default location the installer supplied me with (most likely due to the C drive being nearly full). Anyone else encounter this and know a workaround?
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|As far as I have read, The BeOS has to be on the C: Drive for it to work with Windows. Although there is supposed to be a way to install it on it's own partition, but I don't know if they left that in place or not.
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|Installed perfectly on D:\Beos on my NT4 machine. Fooled around with the OS for about on hour and was pleased with what I saw.
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|How is your drive partitioned? My understanding is that BeOS won't install on an NTFS drive. Seems to go for Winlinux as well. Gotta install it on a fat. If this is incorrect I'd love to know how to install it on an NTFS partition.
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|Sorry for teh misinfo...Just read the readme buried on the Be site and it claims it works with NTFS dirves though I can't seem to get it to work on my system (windows 2000 with NTFS 5)
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|Perhaps you're having the same problem as me. I have mine on the C:\, but I have an ATA66 drive, which doesn't seem to be recognized by BeOS. I'm gonna try BeOS later with my ATA33 channels....
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|I tried it on my Ultra 33 and my Ultra Wide SCSI (system drive with Winnt boot partition) Neither worked though BeOS claims to support all my system hardware, including drives and SCSI cards. I'm going to tryit out at work to day on a Windows NT 4 Workstation system. Only one physical SCSI drive but I'll see what happens.
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