Anyone remember the "Be" Operating System (BeOS) ??

Sounds like you found something you like.

Try Haiku, ist the new version of BeOS. Even with efi loader. Worked fine with my notebook.

I guess i'll chime in here. I basically built the community around BeOS back at the time developing multiple sites to offer both news, forums and technical help. We had magazines and about 3 million user at the time.

I also pissed off a lot of Microsoft people at Comdex 99, and persuaded a few hardware manufacturers to develop drivers for BeOS and Eugenia at BeNews din't care much for me after i liveblogged from Comdex which i guess might have been the first time via IRC.

Might have to check Haiku out and i do have a few older HP Elitebooks that might be suitable for it.

You'll have to rewind a couple decades (if you were even born yet) to appreciate this tech demo of the BeOS on ..almost.. cutting-edge hardware of the time.


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Having two processors on-the-cheap back then was not something easily attainable. There was a slotted Pentium II riser card that could be soldered/jumped to "restore" hidden symmetric multi-processor functionality which was deliberately sabotaged by Intel (for cost) on consumer-grade chips. I used to run dual 333MHz [overclocked] processors back when everyone else only had a single 166-233 MHz proc... BeOS would have been a godsend on that setup...

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It was long before Windows.