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Oh, or you can search on some torrent sites for BeOS R5 PE Max Edition. That was a kind of hacked up Personal Edition that may have a true disk installer. Mrentropy ( 17188 ) “Great Answer” ( 0 ) Flag as ¶. Patrick Mullen writes: 'Hey, BeOS for Linux has been released. Be doesn't seem to show this off on their page, so I've created a mirror of it. But when I find and download a copy of a new game on tripod (without it being advertized as warez) and download it, isn't this illegal? Free BeOS R5, aka, BeOS 5 Personal Edition was release on. R5 was the 4th major release of BeOS for a public audience, and the 6th since it left. Personal Edition, a 48MB download, was the most commonly used version of R5. A live ISO is an ISO image of a Live CD which can be used in virtual.

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A preamble

[Before I even start the introduction to this article, I think it's necessary for me to note that I hold stock in Be, Inc. Whether or not you feel this invalidates the findings of this review is up to you, but I would point out that my interest in the success of the company should only underscore how much I want the company to do it right.]

Well, it's been a busy past few months. I managed to find time between finishing school for the year, finding a new job, moving to a new place, and writing music here and there to do a comparison of BeOS R5 Professional versus the freely-downloadable R5 Personal Edition. I know there's a number of readers out there who are curious about the new features in R5, and just what the difference between the two R5 versions is. You might be surprised to find out who won this little shoot-out (hey, no skipping to the end, cheater!)

After Gobe announced that they were to be the North American distributor of R5, I contacted them to get my hands on a copy of R5 Pro. After waiting and waiting, emailing my contact and waiting some more, it finally arrived. The cause for the delay? There was lovely yellow 'Opened by Customs' tape on the package. Yes, an air mail package containing software must certainly be containing drugs or some other nefarious substance. Thank you for wasting my time, Canada Customs.

This review is split into 6 sections:

• Preamble and Introduction (the part you're reading right now)
• Quick intro to the BeOS
• Features (what's new in R5, and the difference between the two versions)
• Installation (my experience with installing it)
• Performance (a comparison between them)
• Clarifying a few PE Myths
• Conclusion (who won)

Each section is summed up briefly with a 'Skippy says' commentary at the end. If you don't have time to read the whole section, at least read that - it'll give you an overview of what you should consider. [NOTE: Some of you might nit-pick that I'm calling it R5 instead of BeOS 5.0, but hey, I'm a BeOS old-timer. It's R5 to me... none of this 'BeOS 5.0' business.] Also note that I'm quoting $69.95 as the price, since that's how much Gobe is selling R5 Pro for on their website - I realize that other retailers may sell for less.

If you're completely new to the OS, keep reading. Then, check out our additional BeOS coverage, which includes some very detailed reviews of the OS from a GUI and installation standpoint.

What is BeOS R5 about, anyways?

R5 Personal Edition (PE) is a very intriguing product. Normally, installing a new OS means that you have to partition your HD into multiple 'drives' so that you can install the new OS on one of them. This can be a tedious and potentially dangerous process (depending on which program you use). R5 PE, on the other hand, allows you to install and run the latest version of BeOS without needing to repartition your HD. It does this by creating a 512 MB file on one of your Windows (FAT32) drives. This file acts as a virtual partition to BeOS - when you run the BeOS loader (either from Windows or from a boot floppy), it pretends that this file is a partition, and loads the BeOS off of it, as it would off a normal harddrive. Your BeOS applications and settings all reside inside the 512 MB partition with the OS. While this doesn't seem like much room, it actually works fine. The system files, applications, and everything included as part of the system all take up only about 90 MB. I have a lot of applications and things that I've acquired for the BeOS, and that's only around 200 MB. If you decide to use R5 PE as your main OS, you will most likely want to install it to its own partition at some point (since copious amounts of mail and IRC logs can take up space). In the mean-time, however, this clever system lets anyone use the BeOS on their system, hassle-free. Try it, I think you'll like it.

Features

To make this sensible, I'll cover the basic improvements now, all of which are contained in both the Personal and Professional editions, and then move on to cover the added mojo in Pro.

To be honest, R5 isn't as big an improvement over R4.5 as many people (including myself) hoped it would be. This isn't to say that there aren't great new features, but rather that there are some key ones that were left out (more on that later). While a more comprehensive list of the improvements found in R5 is here, I've decided just to cover a few of the points that I feel are most important. You really should check out Be's site just to see all the full list of improvements and random hardware that is now supported (like mouse wheels, yay!), since you may not necessarily agree with my choice of 'most important' points.

1. Media improvements
Be followed through on implementing their multi-track media nodes, and we finally saw support for a lot of new sound devices: the Echo Gina, Layla, and Darla (all multi-I/O cards), and some Aureal Vortex and Vortex-2 based cards, among others. Media file handling was improved, and Be added some new encoders/decoders/codecs to their media system (notably a Cinepak encoder and a system-wide mp3 decoder). Starting with the R5 betas, I experienced some audio crackling issues common to the users of some soundcards. Thankfully these appeared to just be an issue with the betas, because my sound quality is back to its wonderful self with R5 (both Pro and PE).

2. Video changes
Among the selection of newly supported hardware is the Matrox G400, the ATi Rage 128 Pro chipset, the Intel i810 and the Trident MVP4. One thing that really irritated a number of users is that OpenGL support was removed from R5. Be's reasoning is that they were in the middle of re-writing it, and didn't want to either (a) release something that was very incomplete, or (b) waste time updating the old OpenGL drivers to R5.

At any rate, the OpenGL beta is closed to the general public. Additionally, there is currently no OpenGL for ATi or NVidia chipsets. Be does have the necessary documentation for ATi's chipsets, but they are hoping that someone will step forward and offer to write the drivers for them. Nvidia, on the other hand... well, Trey Boudreau from Be put it best when he said 'our people are talking to their people. Don't attempt to read anything into the previous sentence. You'll just make yourself frustrated.'

It would be nice if Be would open up the OpenGL beta to the general public and let people decide whether or not they want to risk their systems with unsupported and very experimental code. However, Be prefers to release nice, polished tidbits once in a while for the public's consumption, so you'll have to wait until they decide that the OpenGL rewrite is ready. For those users who are a bit curious, there is currently support for the following 3D cards in the upcoming OpenGL rewrite: 3Dfx Voodoo 2, 3 and 4 (yes, 4), Matrox G200 and G400/MAX, and the SiS 620.

3. Deskbar improvements
The Deskbar (aka the Be menu) has three great additions to it: Recent Documents, Recent Applications, and Configure Be Menu. The first two are self-explanatory and straightforward. The latter brings up a helpful window to help you manage the application links and folders that are shown in the Be menu. It used to be you had to manage this menu by creating links to your applications from /boot/home/config/be. While you can still do that (and for some people it's easier), many users will elect to use this new feature. (Click to see a larger image).

4. Bundled FS support
All the newly-included filesystem support drivers were available separately from third parties previously, but it's nice to have them included now by default. Included are read-only drivers for NTFS, ext2 (linux) and cdda. The cdda-fs driver is probably one of the most wonderful filesystem drivers that I've ever played with; it lets you mount your audio CDs as though they were just data CDs with WAV files on them. This lets you manipulate the files in any application as though they were WAVs - and it's completely transparent to the app.

5. A bundled CD-R Utility
Oh my, yes! How could I almost forget it? This handy little program is found in both PE and Pro and lets users of some CD-R(W)s burn audio and data CDs. Here's a l'il screenshot of me busy making a new CD (except that my burner wasn't plugged in).While the list of supported CD-R(W)s supported in CDBurner is short (10, to be exact), any MMC-3 compliant CD-R(W) should work. For those of you who read that last sentence as '... any ?huh? CD-R(W) ....', check out this helpful tip on BeTips. It explains how and why more drives may work, and has a link to a wonderful list of the drives that do and those that should. The CDburner application itself is fairly straightforward to use. While it doesn't have an overabundance of features, it is quite easy to set up and burn CDs. (Click here for a larger pic.)

Now let's have a look at what the Professional version offers.

BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was built for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a 64-bitjournaling file system known as BFS. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design.

The API was written in C++ for ease of programming. It has partial POSIX compatibility and access to a command-line interface through Bash, although internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system.

BeOS used Unicode as the default encoding in the GUI, though support for input methods such as bidirectional text input was never realized.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Classic Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. It was ultimately unable to achieve a significant market share, however, and proved commercially unviable for Be Inc. The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

The open-source OS Haiku, a complete reimplementation of BeOS, is designed to start up where BeOS left off. Beta 1 of Haiku was released in September 2018, 6 years after Alpha 4.^[3]

BeOS
Developer	Be Inc.
OS family	BeOS
Working state	Discontinued
Source model	Closed source
Initial release	October 1995
Platforms	IA-32, PowerPC
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel[1][2]
License	Proprietary
Official website	web.archive.org/web/20110725024750/http://www.beincorporated.com/

History

Initially designed to run on AT&T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc.'s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its aging Classic Mac OS.^[4] Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $300 million;^[5] Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $125 million. Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.^[6]

In 1997, Power Computing began bundling BeOS (on a CD for optional installation) with its line of PowerPC-based Macintosh clones. These systems could dual boot either the Classic Mac OS or BeOS, with a start-up screen offering the choice.^[7]

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.^[8] Through the late 1990s, BeOS managed to create a niche of followers, but the company failed to remain viable. Be Inc. also released a stripped-down, but free, copy of BeOS R5 known as BeOS Personal Edition (BeOS PE). BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.^[9][10] Be Inc. also released a stripped-down version of BeOS for Internet Appliances (BeIA), which soon became the company's business focus in place of BeOS.^[11]

In 2001 Be's copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc. for some $11 million. BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5.1 'Dano', which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment (BONE) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise.^[12][13]

In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be. Be also claimed that Microsoft acted to artificially depress Be Inc.'s initial public offering (IPO).^[14] The case was eventually settled out of court for $23.25 million with no admission of liability on Microsoft's part.^[15]

After the split from Palm, PalmSource used parts of BeOS's multimedia framework for its failed Palm OS Cobalt product.^[16] With the takeover of PalmSource, the BeOS rights now belong to Access Co.^[17]

Continuation and clones

In the years that followed the demise of Be Inc. a handful of projects formed to recreate BeOS or key elements of the OS with the eventual goal of then continuing where Be Inc. left off. This was facilitated by the fact that Be Inc. released some components of BeOS under a free licence. Here is a list of these projects:

• BlueEyedOS: It uses a modified version of the Linux kernel and reimplements the BeOS API over it (BeOS applications need to be recompiled). It is freely downloadable, but sources were never published. There have been no releases since 2003.^[18]
• Cosmoe: A port of the Haiku userland over a Linux kernel. BeOS applications need to be recompiled. It is free and open source software. The last release was in 2004 and its website is no longer online.^[19]
• E/OS: short for Emulator Operating System. A Linux and FreeBSD-based operating system that aimed to run Windows, DOS, AmigaOS and BeOS applications. It is free and open source software.^[20] Active development ended in July 2008.
• Haiku: A complete reimplementation of BeOS not based on Linux. Unlike Cosmoe and BlueEyedOS, it is directly compatible with BeOS applications. It is free and open source software. The first alpha release, 'Haiku R1 / Alpha 1', was released on September 14, 2009.^[21] The second alpha release, 'Haiku R1 / Alpha 2', was made available on May 9, 2010,^[22] and the third alpha release, 'Haiku R1 / Alpha 3', on June 18, 2011.^[23] 'Haiku R1 / Alpha 4' was released November 12, 2012.^[24] As of 2018, it is the only BeOS clone still under development, with the first Beta version released on September 28, 2018.^[3]

Zeta was a commercially available operating system based on the BeOS R5.1 codebase. Originally developed by yellowTAB, the operating system was then distributed by magnussoft. During development by yellowTAB, the company received criticism from the BeOS community for refusing to discuss its legal position with regard to the BeOS codebase (perhaps for contractual reasons). Access Co. (which bought PalmSource, until then the holder of the intellectual property associated with BeOS) has since declared that yellowTAB had no right to distribute a modified version of BeOS, and magnussoft has ceased distribution of the operating system.^[25]

Version history

Release	Date	Hardware
DR1–DR5	October 1995	AT&T Hobbit
DR6 (developer release)	January 1996	PowerPC
DR7	April 1996
DR8	September 1996
Advanced Access Preview Release	May 1997
PR1 (preview release)	June 1997
PR2	October 1997
R3	March 1998	PowerPC and Intel x86
R3.1	June 1998
R3.2	July 1998
R4	November 4, 1998
R4.5 ('Genki')	June 1999
R5 PE/Pro ('Maui')	March 2000
R5.1 ('Dano')	November 2001	Intel x86

Products using BeOS

BeOS (and now Zeta) continue to be used in media appliances, such as the Edirol DV-7 video editors from Roland Corporation, which run on top of a modified BeOS^[26] and the Tunetracker Radio Automation software that used to run it on BeOS^[27][28][29] and Zeta, and it was also sold as a 'Station-in-a-Box' with the Zeta operating system included.^[30] In 2015, Tunetracker released Haiku distribution on USB flash disk bundled with its broadcasting software.^[31]

The Tascam SX-1 digital audio recorder runs a heavily modified version of BeOS that will only launch the recording interface software.^[32]

iZ Technology Corporation sells the RADAR 24, RADAR V and RADAR Studio, hard disk-based, 24-track professional audio recorders based on BeOS 5,^[33] although the newer RADAR 6 is not based on BeOS.

Magicbox, a manufacturer of signage and broadcast display machines, uses BeOS to power their Aavelin product line.^[34]

Final Scratch, a 12″ vinyl timecode record-driven DJ software/hardware system, was first developed on BeOS. The 'ProFS' version was sold to a few dozen DJs prior to the 1.0 release, which ran on a Linux virtual partition.^[35]

See also

References

1. ^'BeOS'. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
2. ^“BeOS’ kernel is ‘proprietary’. It uses its own kernel (small but not really micro-kernel because it includes the file system and a few other things).” —Hubert Figuière
3. ^ ^ab'Haiku Release 1 Beta 1', Haiku-OS.org, September 28, 2018, archived from the original on 2018-09-29
4. ^Tom (2004-11-24). 'BeOS @ MaCreate'. Archived from the original on 2005-03-24. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
5. ^Tom, Hormby. 'The Rise and Fall of Apple's Gil Amelio'. Low End Mac. Cobweb Publishing, Inc. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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14. ^Andrew Orlowski (2002-02-20). 'Be Inc. sues Microsoft'. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
15. ^Mark Berniker (2003-09-08). 'Microsoft Settles Anti-Trust Charges with Be'. Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
16. ^PalmSource Introduces Palm OS Cobalt, PalmSource press release, 10 February 2004. Archived July 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
17. ^ACCESS Completes Acquisition of PalmSource, ACCESS press release, November 14, 2005. Archived January 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
18. ^'Welcome to BlueEyedOS'. BlueEyedOS. BlueEyedOS. 26 June 2003. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
19. ^'The Cosmoe Operating System'. Internet Archive. Cosmoe. 2 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-06-02. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
20. ^'Free BeOS and BeOS Clones'. The Free Country. The Free Country. 30 November 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
21. ^'Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1'. 2009-09-14. Archived from the original on 2013-12-21.
22. ^'Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 2'. 2010-05-09. Archived from the original on 2014-03-14.
23. ^'Haiku Release 1 Alpha 3', Haiku-OS.org, June 18, 2011, archived from the original on 2011-06-23
24. ^'Haiku Release 1 Alpha 4', Haiku-OS.org, November 12, 2011, archived from the original on 2013-12-22
25. ^'Zeta Operating System'. Operating System.org. Operating System.org. 14 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-03-14. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
26. ^'EDIROL by Roland DV-7DL Series Digital Video Workstations'. Archived from the original on 2006-11-10. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
27. ^Hacker, Scott (21 May 2001). 'BeOS And Radio Automation'. Byte.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2001. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
28. ^Vernon, Tom (4 June 2002). 'TuneTracker 2 Brings Automation to All'. Radio World. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
29. ^'Station to station'. Computer Music. No. 82. Future plc. January 2005. pp. 68–73. ISSN1463-6875.
30. ^'TuneTracker Radio Automation Software'. Archived from the original on 14 November 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-09.
31. ^Förster, Moritz (17 March 2015). 'Alternative Betriebssysteme: Haiku als USB-Distribution' (in German). iX Magazin. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
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33. ^'iZ RADAR 24'. Archived from the original on 2006-12-27. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
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35. ^Peter Kirn (28 April 2008). 'Ni Ends Legal Dispute Over Traktor Scratch; Digital Vinyl's Twisty, Turny History'. Create Digital Music. Create Digital Music. Archived from the original on 2014-03-14. Retrieved 18 January 2014.

External links

• The Dawn of Haiku, by Ryan Leavengood, IEEE Spectrum May 2012, p 40-43,51-54.
• BeOS Celebrating Ten Years
• BeGroovy A blog dedicated to all things BeOS
• BeOS: The Mac OS X might-have-been, reghardware.co.uk
• Programming the Be Operating System: An O'Reilly Open Book (out of print, but can be downloaded)
• BeOS Developer Video on YouTube
• U.S. Trademark 78,558,039 (BeOS)

BeOS API

The BeOS API, often called the Be API after Be Inc., is the application programming interface required to write graphical native applications on BeOS, and hence its derivatives such as ZETA and Haiku.

The API is divided into a number of 'kits', which collect related classes together and bear some relation to the library which contains the supporting code.

It is almost entirely C++, with third-party bindings for most classes in Python and a tiny subset of classes, mostly Storage kit related, in Perl.

Be File System

The Be File System (BFS) is the native file system for the BeOS. In the Linux kernel, it is referred to as 'BeFS' to avoid confusion with Boot File System.

BFS was developed by Dominic Giampaolo and Cyril Meurillon over a ten-month period, starting in September 1996, to provide BeOS with a modern 64-bit capable journaling file system. It is case-sensitive and capable of being used on floppy, hard disks and read-only media such as CD-ROMs. However, its use on small removable media is not advised, as the file-system headers consume from 600 KB to 2 MB, rendering floppy disks virtually useless.

Like its predecessor, OFS (Old Be File System, written by Benoit Schillings - formerly BFS), it includes support for extended file attributes (metadata), with indexing and querying characteristics to provide functionality similar to that of a relational database.

Whilst intended as a 64-bit-capable file system, the size of some on-disk structures mean that the practical size limit is approximately 2 exabytes. Similarly the extent-based file allocation reduces the maximum practical file size to approximately 260 gigabytes at best and as little as a few blocks in a pathological worst case, depending on the degree of fragmentation.

Its design process, application programming interface, and internal workings are, for the most part, documented in the book Practical File System Design with the Be File System.

Be Inc.

Be Inc. was an American computer company founded in 1990, best known for the development and release of BeOS, and the BeBox personal computer. Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée with capital from Seymour Cray.

Be's corporate offices were located in Menlo Park, California, with regional sales offices in France and Japan. The company later relocated to Mountain View, California for the duration of its dissolution.

The company's main intent was to develop a new operating system using the C++ programming language on a proprietary hardware platform. BeOS was initially exclusive to the BeBox, and was later ported to Apple Computer's Power Macs despite resistance from Apple, due to the hardware specifications assistance of Power Computing. In 1998, BeOS was ported to the Intel x86 architecture, and PowerPC support was reduced and finally dropped after BeOS R5. It inspired the open source operating system, Haiku.

Bootmanager

BootManager, formerly known as BootMan, is the Haiku and BeOS boot loader on x86 systems. It resides solely in the master boot record and does not require installing Haiku or BeOS, although it must be installed from Haiku or BeOS. Its BeOS predecessor was BootMan, and was later renamed as BootManager by the Haiku project.

It is filesystem agnostic, and boots an operating system as if it were being booted directly from the hardware. As such, it can boot virtually any operating system. It can also chainload GRUB, LILO and NTLDR. However, being independent of an OS prevents it from being able to boot any disks which are not accessible via BIOS I/O routines (e.g. INT 13H), with the exception of BeOS disk-in-a-file images on FAT32, NTFS or ext2 file systems.

Gobe Software

Gobe Software, Inc was a software company that published an integrated desktop software suite for BeOS. In later years, it was the publisher of BeOS itself.

Gobe was founded in 1997 by members of the ClarisWorks development team and some of the authors of the original Styleware application for the Apple II. After leaving StyleWare and creating the product later known as ClarisWorks and AppleWorks, Bob Hearn, Scott Holdaway joined Tom Hoke, Scott Lindsey, Bruce Q. Hammond, and Carl Grice who also worked at Apple Computer's Claris division and formed Gobe Software, Inc with the notion to create a next-generation integrated office suite similar to ClarisWorks, but for the BeOS platform.

Gobe Productive v1.0 for BeOS was released in August 1998 and v2.0 in August 1999.

The resulting product, Gobe Productive, was by far the most polished of the word processors, spreadsheet and vector graphics applications for BeOS, but as an integrated package a la ClarisWorks and Microsoft Works.

When Be Inc. outsourced publication of BeOS in 2000, Gobe became the publisher of BeOS in North America, Australia, and sections of Asia. Only weeks after signing up other publishers around the globe, Be, Inc. halted development for the BeOS platform and publicly announced that all of its corporate focus would be on 'Internet Appliances' and made public announcements that hampered forward momentum of the BeOS platform. In addition, the publishers in general and Gobe in particular did not have source code access to the BeOS and were not able to continue its development or add drivers that the platform needed to be a viable alternative to Windows or Linux. Gobe also published Hicom Entertainment/Next Generation Entertainments 'Corum III' role-playing game for BeOS during this period.

The failure of Be, Inc and BeOS meant ports had to be undertaken, and Windows and Linux variants were developed. Although the company shipped a Windows version of its software in December 2001, it was unable to obtain sufficient operating capital after the 2000 stock market crash and suspended operations 2002. In 2008 Gobe management began to work with distribution and development teams in Greater Asia and had plans to ship a new version of the product for the India market early 2010. Later in August 2010, Gobe Productive's website was disabled and then sold to an Indian movie producer called ErosNow.

Haiku (operating system)

Haiku is a free and open-source operating system compatible with the now discontinued BeOS. Its development began in 2001, and the operating system became self-hosting in 2008. The first alpha release was made in September 2009, and the last was November 2012; the first beta was released in September 2018.

Haiku is supported by Haiku, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Rochester, New York, United States, founded in 2003 by former project leader Michael Phipps.As of the June 2018 monthly activity report, Haiku developers had ported LibreOffice.

Haiku Applications

Haiku is a free and open-source operating system compatible with the now discontinued BeOS.

Haiku applications are usually available as HPKGs; however, unpackaged applications can be installed by using Haiku PackageInstaller for legacy BeOS apps or manually unzipping the install files into one of the non-packaged installation folders. Haiku comes with a set of mostly small yet essential applications. Core applications are an essential part of Haiku, as they serve many different purposes. Haiku also has some 3rd party applications to supplement the core applications. The applications are usually executed by double clicking on the icon.

Hitachi Flora Prius

The Hitachi Flora Prius was a range of personal computers marketed in Japan by Hitachi, Ltd. during the late 1990s.The Flora Prius was preinstalled with both Microsoft Windows 98 as well as BeOS. It did not, however, have a dual-boot option as Microsoft reminded Be of the terms of the Windows OEM license. In effect, two thirds of the hard drive was hidden from the end-user, and a series of complicated manipulations was necessary to activate the BeOS partition.

Jakarta Kota railway station

Jakarta Kota Station (Indonesian: Stasiun Jakarta Kota, station code: JAKK) is a terminal train station, located in the old city core of Kota, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.

The station was named Batavia Zuid (or South Batavia) until the beginning of the 20th century. The station was also popularly known as the Beos Station as an abbreviation of Bataviasche Ooster Spoorweg Maatschapij (the Batavian Eastern Railway Company).

Jakarta Kota Station serves as a main station, along with Gambir Station, Jatinegara Station, and Pasar Senen Station, for several intercity train (Argo Train) lines across Java Island. This station also serves three of the six KRL Jabotabek train lines, which operate in the Jakarta metropolitan area.

Jean-Louis Gassée

Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944 in Paris, France) is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November 2004.

Lincity

Lincity is a free and open-source software construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy, similar in concept to SimCity. The player can develop a city by buying appropriate buildings, services and infrastructure. Its name is both a Linux reference and a play on the title of the original city-building game, SimCity, and it was released under the GNU General Public License v2.

Magnussoft ZETA

magnussoft ZETA, earlier yellowTAB ZETA, was an operating system formerly developed by yellowTAB of Germany based on the Be Operating System developed by Be Inc.; because of yellowTAB's insolvency, ZETA was later being developed by an independent team of which little was known, and distributed by magnussoft. As of February 28, 2007 the current version of ZETA is 1.5. On March 28, 2007, magnussoft announced that it has discontinued funding the development of ZETA by March 16, because the sales figures had fallen far short of the company's expectations, so that the project was no longer economically viable. A few days later, the company also stopped the distribution of ZETA in reaction to allegations that ZETA constituted an illegal unlicensed derivative of the BeOS source code and binaries.

NetPositive

NetPositive (often called Net+) was the default web browser for the Be Operating System (BeOS). It had partial support for JavaScript, but no CSS support. It was originally developed as a stop-gap measure because no browsers had been ported to BeOS.

NetSurf

NetSurf is an open-source web browser which uses its own layout engine. Its design goal is to be lightweight and portable. NetSurf provides features including tabbed browsing, bookmarks and page thumbnailing.

The NetSurf project was started in April 2002 in response to a discussion of the deficiencies of the RISC OS platform's existing web browsers. Shortly after the project's inception, development versions for RISC OS users were made available for download by the project's automated build system. NetSurf was voted 'Best non-commercial software' four times in Drobe Launchpad's annual RISC OS awards between 2004 and 2008.NetSurf supports both mainstream systems (e.g. macOS and Unix-like) and older or uncommon platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, Haiku, Atari TOS and RISC OS).

The browser was ranked in 2011 as number 8 in an article highlighting 10 browsers for Linux published in TechRepublic and ZDNet. It was referred to in 2010 as a superior CLI browser to w3m.

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OpenTracker

OpenTracker is the open-source version of the Tracker file manager for BeOS-compatible operating systems.

Be Inc. developed the original Tracker for their operating system, BeOS. In 2000, prior to selling all of their assets to Palm, Inc., Be Inc. open-sourced some of their software, including Tracker. The software license, called the Open Tracker License [sic], is an MIT License with two addenda restricting the use of Be Inc. trademarks.Be Inc. hosted OpenTracker until 2001. Before the dissolution of the corporation, both Be developers and outside volunteers contributed to Be's open-source software projects. With Be's dissolution imminent, prominent OpenTracker contributor Axel Dörfler oversaw the relocation of the OpenTracker project to SourceForge, and at the same time began a new software versioning scheme. Dörfler established the new software version at 5.1.0.

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Some open-source software developers continued to develop OpenTracker, while others forked the source code into novel variations. One such divergence, Tracker.NewFS, has distinctive source code for file system operations, as well as support for SVG icons. yellowTAB, too, added support for SVG icons in their closed-source fork.

Tracker (file manager)

Haiku Tracker is a graphical user interface for managing files of the Haiku operating system. It is somewhat similar to Finder on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

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Haiku Tracker is based on OpenTracker which in turn is based on Tracker found in the BeOS.

VICE

The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is a free and cross platform emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers. It runs on Linux, Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, RISC OS, QNX, GP2X, Pandora (console), Dingoo A320, Syllable, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence.

VICE for Microsoft Windows (Win32) is known as WinVICE, the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is called BeVICE.

Virtual folder

In computing, a virtual folder generally denotes an organizing principle for files that is not dependent on location in a hierarchical directory tree. Instead, it consists of software that coalesces results from a data store, which may be a database or a custom index, and presents them visually in the format in which folder views are presented. A virtual folder can be thought of as a view that lists all files tagged with a certain tag, and thus a simulation of a folder whose dynamic contents can be assembled on the fly, when requested. It is related in concept to several other topics in computer science, with names including saved search, saved query, and filtering.

VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2.

Besides the DirectX version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free platform independent graphics library SDL. This is available for a variety of operating systems including Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and BeOS. VisualBoyAdvance has also been ported to AmigaOS 4, AROS, GameCube, Wii, webOS, and Zune HD.

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