Tag: BEOS

Back in the early 1990s, BeOS appeared on the operating system scene promising a simple, uncluttered desktop designed to tackle digital media chores. Though Be is no longer "alive," its memory lives on thanks to a devoted community of supporters - like those behind Haiku. At long last, the Haiku OS project is getting close to an initial alpha release. Even better, they're making nightly builds ...

Bernd Korz, founder of the now defunct Yellow Tab, has kept a low public profile since the failure of his BeOS based Zeta Operating System. In his personal blog, he has expressed interest in Linux, and specifically, Ubuntu, for a few months now. Although it seemed he'd given up on his dream to bring a BeOS based OS to the masses, he has jumped back into the spotlight. Or, at least, he's been ...

The last time we covered BeOS was two years ago, with this optimistic post. Since then however, YellowTab has gone down in flames and scandal, and the last hope for commercial BeOS is dead. Meanwhile, in the land of Open Source, something big is happening. After six years of development, the Haiku team is nearing completion of a completely free and open implementation of BeOS. We downloaded a ...