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1000schnauzers

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Who here uses BeOS?
« on: 12 January 2003, 06:05 »
I've got a stack of PC games knee-deep that I never get to play, so I'm building a gaming machine.  I'm looking into BeOS, since I heard it's a good gaming OS and I'm loathe to put any more M$ bullshit on my machines than I absolutely have to. Does anybody use it?  Will it support any game that's supposed to run in Win?
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« Reply #1 on: 12 January 2003, 10:03 »
probaly not unless you use some wine and deep voodoo magic, but i have used it and it is sweet.
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« Reply #2 on: 12 January 2003, 10:21 »
No, your games won't run, but BeOS (no more, Be they closed) is firggen KICK ASS. I even talk to one of the kernel developers sometimes :) . (he made his AIM publicly available).
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« Reply #3 on: 12 January 2003, 16:21 »
Im interested in this OS, how good are they on Laptops?  Infact how good is their hardware support.
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« Reply #4 on: 12 January 2003, 20:53 »
pretty good, you can download it at www.bebits.com it supports a fair amount of hardware but i havn't used it as much as linux or the *bsd's. as for it being closed, their is a project  called openbeos that is rebuilding it. but it's still in its infancy.
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« Reply #5 on: 12 January 2003, 21:16 »
Hrmmm...OK  I was under the impression, from what I had heard, that BeOS had been created specifically with gaming in mind....I'm trying to not have any M$ or Winblows in my home, but it looks like I'm gonna hafta if I wanna run all these games. And I'm no voodoo programmer (yet), so that rules that out. Blast.   :mad:

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« Reply #6 on: 12 January 2003, 22:49 »
Uh, GAMING OS?

Hehe.

More like a media OS.
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« Reply #7 on: 13 January 2003, 14:07 »
i have to say:

http://openbeos.org/

no discussion of BeOS would be complete without that link nowadays.
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« Reply #8 on: 13 January 2003, 16:48 »
Why not just get Linux with WineX(CVS)?
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