BeOS - The Forgotten ‘90S Operating System (Retrospective & Demo)

(also testing submissions from Mastodon… hope this works as expected)

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It does still live on, somewhat, in its spiritual successor, Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/

Its last release was in December 2022.
I installed BeOS on my PowerPC Macintosh in the days right around the NeXT acquisition. It was a spiffy OS, at least for a teen nerd without much knowledge beyond Mac OS.
I actually used beos as a daily driver for a few months. This was maybe around 2000 or 2001. WinME crashed a lot for me and I couldn’t make linux detect my winmodem. Installed beos and everything was great. Dual booted with windows 98 when I wanted to play StarCraft.

Moved to Linux soon after but I will always remember those great days.
dang, I was hoping this would create an actual linked post on Lemmy instead of a text post with the link inside

maybe that can't be done from Mastodon

BeOS - The Forgotten ‘90S Operating System (Retrospective &amp; Demo)