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Re: [Sheflug] BeOS
begin Chris J quotation:
> > So I was wondering whether anyone used BeOS
> > before, and what do they have to say about it.
>
> No substantially :) Last time I looked was when evaluations were on cover-CDs
> about 3 or 4 year ago. I remember it seemed quite swish, even having a UNIX-
> like command line (ie, you can type "ls" etc). Meant to go back and play more
> but never did...I was toying around with buying it but again...never did...
Well, I'll be installing it tonight (and by the way, it's not a
warez release or anything. It is pretty legal). It looks quite sweet:
you can get most of the Posix tools run on BeOS, mozilla, abiword and
all that.
> Another OS I mean to take a gander at is Plan 9 [1]. Available for download
Inferno could be a quick fix option, as the people at Vita Nuova
(I seem to recall they are a Leeds-based company) provide you with an IE
plugin. Inferno is some sort of commercial derivative of Plan9, and has
all kinds of cool names for things: styx, limbo, charon... Which is
obviously well worth the effort :-)
> Heh :) My rubber keyed Speccy 48 ... as well as the +2 and +3 beat both hands
> down :P
I had one of those as well. In fact, xzx is probably the only
games I have for Linux (those were the days, compiling xzx on Dec
Alphas... sigh...)
Cheers,
José
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