Through the late 1990s, BeOS managed to create a niche of followers, but the company failed to remain viable.
Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In 1997, Power Computing began bundling BeOS (on a CD for optional installation) with its line of PowerPC-based Macintosh clones.
Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In 1997, Power Computing began bundling BeOS (on a CD for optional installation) with its line of PowerPC-based Macintosh clones.
These systems could dual boot either the Classic Mac OS or BeOS, with a start-up screen offering the choice. Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.
also released a stripped-down version of BeOS for Internet Appliances (BeIA), which soon became the company's business focus in place of BeOS. In 2001 Be's copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc.
BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5.1 "Dano", which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment (BONE) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise. In 2002, Be Inc.
There have been no releases since 2003. Cosmoe: A port of the Haiku userland over a Linux kernel.
The last release was in 2004 and its website is no longer online. E/OS: short for Emulator Operating System.
Active development ended in July 2008. Haiku: A complete reimplementation of BeOS not based on Linux.
The first alpha release, "Haiku R1 / Alpha 1", was released on September 14, 2009.
The second alpha release, "Haiku R1 / Alpha 2", was made available on May 9, 2010, and the third alpha release, "Haiku R1 / Alpha 3", on June 18, 2011.
The second alpha release, "Haiku R1 / Alpha 2", was made available on May 9, 2010, and the third alpha release, "Haiku R1 / Alpha 3", on June 18, 2011.
"Haiku R1 / Alpha 4" was released November 12, 2012.
Beta 1 of Haiku was released in September 2018, six years after Alpha 4.
As of 2020, it is the only BeOS clone still under development, with the first beta version released on September 28, 2018, and the second beta version released on June 9, 2020. Zeta was a commercially available operating system based on the BeOS R5.1 codebase.
Beta 2 of Haiku was released in June 2020. == History == Initially designed to run on AT&T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc.'s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its aging Classic Mac OS.
As of 2020, it is the only BeOS clone still under development, with the first beta version released on September 28, 2018, and the second beta version released on June 9, 2020. Zeta was a commercially available operating system based on the BeOS R5.1 codebase.
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