BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox
github.commlmonkey7 hours ago
"Be" .... now that's a blast from the past! :-D
alberth7 hours ago
I recall dual booting BeOS circa 1999/2000, on my 486dx2-66.
It was shockingly performant, especially with anything graphical.
The difficulty was no apps.
Brings back fond memories, nonetheless.
multiplegeorges7 hours ago
It had a decent number of apps, I drove it as my primary OS for a while.
Ended up using Linux, but it was a great OS for its time.
cosmic_cheese6 hours ago
It was ridiculously fast on my family’s Dimension 4100 tower, which had a 750Mhz PIII in it. The 98SE install that machine shipped with was glacial in comparison, and though Win2K shrunken the gap dramatically it still wasn’t as fast as BeOS.
I was able to find a decent number of apps on BeBits but a lot of stuff was missing.
majorchord5 hours ago
I'm fairly certain that BeOS never supported the 486
nrr3 hours ago
Specifically, the BeOS required support for the rtdsc instruction for its timing, and that was only available on the Pentium chips or later.
MomsAVoxell3 hours ago
There were a few apps, a word processor, a 3D modeling and rendering application, some media players, a basic DAW and so on .. but the web browser situation kind of wasn’t so great, and there were still holes in the OS where future features had been promised, a bit too long imho ..
(Disclaimer: you can pry my still-functioning BeBox from my cold dead hands.. okay, I admit, I only use it a couple times a year just to be sure it still boots..)
ardenpm59 minutes ago
Reminds me I should probably make sure mine still boots, been a few years now.
Everytime I have to re-find all of the adapters for the keyboard, mouse and monitor. Always amazed how fast it boots when I do get it going.
ranger_danger6 hours ago
Now just combine it with Cosmoe[1] so you can run it from Linux too.
PAPPPmAc6 hours ago
How odd to come into a thread and find a link to my share-with-note (see name/url) instead of a link to the OSNews article it's a share of.
hexapus6 hours ago
I really do need to play with Haiku more.
hdjdnxjzhzhs9 minutes ago
I want to make haiku.rs
YVoyiatzis6 hours ago
If only for the UI. Back then, all bring white and beige and Windows blue screenofdesthblye. Be OS was pure joy, if only to play around with. Many third-party developers (remember sharewsre) took s liking to the Be aesthetic and ran away with it.
alfiedotwtf5 minutes ago
What the hell happened to BeBox and QNX?! They were the pinnacle of blitz. I’ve got a beefy machine to run large LLM models, but recently installing a new Debian, Gnome struggles after booting because of their packaging manager running 100% for a few minutes, following by random lag. Like wtf we had speed 26 years ago :(