Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 2d ago

@neauoire

#BeOS' metadata chops were legendary.

Other OSes still haven't caught up.

Show threadFaraiwe2d ago

@neauoire #BeOS was decades ahead of its time, irrespective of its incipient and temporary shortcomings, then.

I have yet to see any - ANY - OS that has the equivalent WOW factor, ever since. Nothing, absolutely nothing comes even close.

Haiku is a poor would-be attempt. Nice, but... eh.

The ol' tealeg 🐡4d ago
Arrived home to newly acquired, old books. I read all three of these in my youth, but I foolishly gave away my copy of “Programming the Be Operating System”,when I left the UK, and two of my Spike Milligan memoirs were lost in a cellar flood in Munich. I feel a wonderful circular sense of completeness now. #beos #haikuOS #books
RetrópolisApr 27

Vitruvian OS

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/27/vitruvian-os/

#MundoRetro #Be #BeOS #Haiku #Linux #SistemaOperacional

Vitruvian OS - Retrópolis

Falamos um tanto a respeito da Be, do Be OS, de Jean-Louis Gassett e um pouco sobre o Haiku (abraço, BGA!) no episódio 161. Mas a gente foi surpreendido pelo lançamento do Vitruvian OS. O V\OS é uma distribuição Linux baseada nos conceitos trazidos pelo BeOS, incluindo elegância e responsividade. A interface é aquela que

Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos
AGMSApr 26
Yup, that’s quite familiar. Same boot to MacOS first then to BeOS on my Power Computing PPC tower of roughly the same vintage 200Mhz CPU era. I use it for compiling PPC versions of BeShare and VNCServer etc, for the boast of shipping for the most #BeOS & #HaikuOS varieties.
Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪Apr 23

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey

Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻

Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!

For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.

In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).

The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.

May multitasking always be with you!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

ArchiveOSApr 22
IceBreaker – an action/arcade game availabale to many platforms, been started developed in 2000. https://archivegame.org/icebreaker/ #game #arcade #linux #windows #bsd #beos #solaris #osx
FaBEApr 22
On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. 📕 #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html - The book is available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407210M/BeOS_Bible_The
BeOS Bible

SiddeApr 19

Running #HaikuOS on a #Thinkpad T14s Gen 3 works great. Except this laptop is so hot my fingers hurts typing on the keyboard.

#BeOS #RetroComputing

Show threadThe ol' tealeg 🐡Apr 19
@scops if only #HaikuOS would grow a security model (and perhaps better graphics driver support)! I used to run #BeOS, back in the 90s. Always loved it, and it brings me joy still today, but this is not the Windows 95 / Mac OS 7 world any more. We can't live in this "everyone is root" setup.