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jbzVery inspired to do my website like, but instead honoring BeOS <a href="https://posthog.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://posthog.com/</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webdev</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retro</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ux</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ui</a>

KanceptI don't normally dream of the past, nor in such vivid detail. Last night, I dreamt of BeOS. I dreamt through the interactions I had with people. Entire conversations I had in BeShare. Thom. Eugina. Ton. Serpentor. Jeremy. Minox. mmu_man. Berndt. The friends I made and traveled to meet. The huge trinitron monitor I used. That Acer FP2 I migrated to for an amazing all-in-one experience with BeOS. Syncing my IBM C3 (PalmPilot) to BeOS in that little cradle. The MO44 I purchased to support the company and never used. Controlling my house through my X10 gear with BeOS. The happiness the day I acquired a BeBox and a BeIA tablet. The things I built. The code I wrote. The BeShare PPC versions I built on my BeBox and Apple Performa for Jeremy to put on BeBits. The machines I upgraded. The NDAs I signed to get hardware and docs to write drivers for. The day Be, Inc. called me and asked politely for me to stop sharing the source code that was shared to my open BeShare instance making me the only official BeOS bug that's an actual person!The day I signed up for WalterCon. Haiku. YellowTab. The controversy.The sadness of the day I had to list my whole collection on eBay to flee a dying economy and move my family. The awesomeness of knowing I was mentioned <a href="https://mstdn.social/@osnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@osnews</a> for my collection being up for grabs. The knowledge that my BeOS collection literally saved my family. The years and years of joy I had with it. I woke up sad things aren't like that anymore. I woke up happy it happened. Thanks JLG and crew. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a>*Sorry I keep editing it, but I was just waking up and wrote this so I wouldn't forget it. I'm updating as things become more clear as I fully wake.

Jeff C. 🇺🇦You know you're a computer geek of a certain vintage when the letters ‘JLG' on a scissor lift at a construction site immediately makes you think of yellow tabs… and then you get sad.<a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/JLG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JLG</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

Jun Nergahak 🌺🌺🌺The BeOS Bible (1999) <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-beos-bible" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/the-beos-bible</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBeOSBible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheBeOSBible</a>

FaBEToday's <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@haiku" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@haiku</a>|s 24th birthday! Congratulations! 🎊🍾🎉 <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaikuOS</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> <a href="https://www.haiku-os.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.haiku-os.org</a>

BegasusThere is a reason some of us kept to Haiku, we remember the good old BeOS days, looks like current beta5 is pretty much on par with our history (just checking a recent build for Gwenview 25.08.0 and opening a movie with multiple applications! WTG! <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaikuOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/haikuports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haikuports</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multimedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/altOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#altOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a>

Kancept<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@Nagaram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Nagaram</a> it’s absolutely exhausting. At least once a month I consider just giving up on it and walking away from the whole lot of it. Get an old Pentium, a Palm Pilot, run <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> and if it can’t be done with those, then I just don’t care.

Faraiwe<a href="https://wandering.shop/@valkyrie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@valkyrie</a> aw, maaaaan, I recall testing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SETI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SETI</a> for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> in 199... uh... no, 2001... no, 2002....... uh... I'm ... uh ... old.( <a href="http://www.bebits.com/app/813" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.bebits.com/app/813</a> ) Cc <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Kancept" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Kancept</a>

jbz🔮 The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (And Maybe It Was Right) – Desktop On Fire!｢ Imagine: instead of OS X based on NeXTSTEP, we would have had an Apple system based on BeOS. No decades-old Unix cruft, no Mach kernel heavy as an elephant, but an operating system born for multimedia, elegant as a Lamborghini and fast as… well, as a Lamborghini ｣<a href="https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/haikuos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haikuos</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

BegasusPost in our Haiku forum on why we love Haiku so much, might be worth reading if you are interested in alternative operating systems. :)<a href="https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/honest-question-honest-answer-why-haiku/16969" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/honest-question-honest-answer-why-haiku/16969</a><a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaikuOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/altOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#altOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/operatingsytem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#operatingsytem</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#future</a>

Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing<a href="https://meow.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a>. Surely it's won some kind of symbolic war with <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a>. It's almost as if Jean-Paul Gassée knew that the only thing which could possibly trump Steve Jobs's coöption of "the Western canon" and its greatest symbolic treasures was to simplify even further. Be! It's not just an element on the periodic table, it's a command. EXIST! Be incorporated, Be, Incorporated! It's a triumph of marketing and it's saved <a href="https://meow.social/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaikuOS</a>, which keeps its small flame burning. It's the most promising escape from the <a href="https://meow.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> mire, in my opinion, a way towards something less hairy and intimidating yet modular and accessible in its range of features.But I speak as a convert, a former <a href="https://meow.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> developer. It was ever so long ago, in my post-<a href="https://meow.social/tags/Caltech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Caltech</a> years, and I find myself wondering if someone at 'Tech didn't decide to keep spying on what I was doing. I would have made it easy for them; I went on using my UGCS email address for years.And I propose to help them out, magically! An alchemical ritual to strengthen the elemental aspects of Be and BeOS.~Chara

Eugenia LNew rEFInd bootloader theme for my laptop! It boots straight to The Choice. The Matrix is my favorite film of all time, so...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/refind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#refind</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#operatingsystem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thematrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thematrix</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ubuntu</a>

Eugenia LRunning Haiku OS on bare metal, on two different laptops: a Thinkpad x280 and a DELL 5480. Everything works perfectly except the touchpads/tracksticks (on the Thinkpad it crashes a lot but it works, on the DELL it doesn't work at all). With a mouse it works great.Haiku has certainly come a long way!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#operatingsystem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haikuos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haikuos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engineering</a>

Eugenia LI found these updated Haiku icons for Linux, and they look great on my wanna-be Haiku/BeOS-like XFce desktop under EndeavourOS. It just feels right.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archlinux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavourOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endeavourOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#icons</a>

Eugenia LI really dislike the flat design that has come to overpower everything since 2013. I prefer the old iphone Skeuomorphism, pixel art icons from the '90s (e.g. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a>), and the new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neuomorphism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neuomorphism</a> (but with more contrast than shown in the pic). But flat design, no, thank you.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flatdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flatdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skeuomorphism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#skeuomorphism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ui</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/userinterface" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#userinterface</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a>

Boiling SteamCosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland: <a href="https://cosmoe.org/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://cosmoe.org/index.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#update</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wayland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#library</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/cosmoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cosmoe</a>

oneguynickBeOS interface design and user experience were the pinnacle of computing for me in many ways. Super excited about this project to add a C++ UI library to Linux:<a href="https://cosmoe.org/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cosmoe.org/index.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a>

pb 🇺🇦<a href="https://social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua/@Ambivalentor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Ambivalentor</a> вже подумав про повернення <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeOS</a> :)

Eugenia LSome more tweaking, and my BeOS impersonation under XFce is near complete. It just feels good.And the system now cold-boots at 475 MB of RAM. Awesome!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xfce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavouros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endeavouros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archlinux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a>

Eugenia LThese BeOS themes look good-enough via XFce on my EndeavourOS installation. Reminds me of the good old times. Ah, these were the days...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xfce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavouros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endeavouros</a>

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