BeOS 5 Personal Edition for Windows

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• im not sure

  maxyoon85February 20, 2009

  Pros

  its free, no need to spend money

  Cons

  i think it doesnt work

  Summary

  i have the same problem i downloaded beos 5.0, installed it, made the boot disk, and when i click on start beos it asks me to insert the boot disk and reboot. however when i do this, it doesnt boot to beos. it boots the normal way to windows. can someone help me?

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• This OS is C@@l!

  Andrew_poulain8306April 20, 2005

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  it is fast, easy to use. cd burning is fast!

  Cons

  terminal is too complex to use, if you want to install this on a hard disk, DO NOT use it on the same disk you put it on or you have to insert the boot floppy EVERY tim you want to use BE os.

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• mediocore

  megaman2000phFebruary 21, 2005

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  I was amaze that this product is free and really really fast but...

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  the lack of drivers and support for hardware is a real failure

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• The closest a PC will ever get to Mac.

  December 14, 2004

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  I've used BeOS in it's inception, and was relatively impressed with its performance and ease of use. It reminded me a lot of Mac OS at the time, except that this is before the era of X and Mac did have stability issues when used for massive projects. However, this OS is now really showing its age. If you have any old Pentiums, PII's, K6, or other machines between 200 and 500 mhz, try it out. You might just like it. (btw kgrantz, thanks for letting the world that doesn't pay attention to microsoft technet know that bill's evil empire will molest yet another good product and call it their own.)

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• Incompatable with almost everything

  November 29, 2004

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  Sure, it's almost 4 years old, but the OS doesn't supoprt any hardware that is available... even from that era. Downloading newer versions (available elsewhere) didn't make it any better either

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• September 10, 2004

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• could someone help me

  August 4, 2004

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  hello i have installed beos 5 personal edition,i made hte boot disk.when i click "start beos" i'm told to insert the disk in the drive and press yes to reboot.but when i reboot ,it's booting to windows instead of beos

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• BeOS is fast

  July 25, 2004

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  BeOS is one of the fastest OS's out there everyone should try it at least once.

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• sucks!

  nick143July 13, 2004

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  any operating system can be better than this. its fast and stable but there isnt much to run and i cant run any windows compatible programs.

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• Super Fast & Stable OS

  June 6, 2004

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  This is not the best distro out, many new machines will have driver issues, try BeosMax or 'try' to find PHOS or DAN0 or better yet, purchase Yellowtab's Zeta. BEOS is the coolest little OS ever made, good looks, fast, easy to use, easy to develop on. not for the mainstream, but cool for the hardcore

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