[PLUG] BE

[Richard June]

ReTodd wrote:

> > A friend of mine is a user and for a while wanted to start a BUG. I know
> > one, perhaps two others. What hardware do you run it on?
> >
>
> Be will run on either a Mac or PC.  It should support most of your existing
> hardware although sound card support is iffy.  The new version 4.0, which
> premiers next week at Comdex, is suppose to support Plug and Play software.
> If you've never used BE before it is fast as hell, and 4.0 is suppose to be
> close to 45% faster that 3.1 which I am running now.   Be includes your
> basic software such as a browser, mail program, c/c++ compiler, and source
> code to all the included programs and demos.  However, the BeOS itself is
> not open-source.
>
> Todd
>
> I'm not trying to dis the purpose of this mailing list - I know it's for
> Linux not Be, I was just wondering if anyone was interested in it.

I'm interested, it looks cool as hell, but don't have the cash to shell out
for another OS, and Probably dont' have the hardware to run it on yet.

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