BeeOS 4.5 Free for Personal Use Posted by Rotundo on Wednesday October 13, @03:05PM EDT from the buzz-buzz dept. MediaMaven writes "Bee Inc. says it will give away a version of its media-focused operating system for personal use. BeeOS boots in about ten seconds, plays eight video streams at once without breaking a sweat, and has a file system that acts like a database. It currently has eleven applications, four of which are image viewers." If only it had a web browser that worked on more than half the web. BeeOS 4.5 Free for Personal Use | Login/Create an Account | Top | 28 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 28 comments 0: 26 comments 1: 22 comments 2: 18 comments 3: 10 comments 4: 5 comments 5: 1 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. Best OS nobody uses by CourtWatcher on Wednesday October 13, @03:12PM EDT (#2) (User Info) BeeOS is technically amazing. It's also doomed, because nobody writes software for an OS that nobody uses, and nobody uses an OS that has no software. [ Reply to This ] Re:Best OS nobody uses by Linixdvd on Wednesday October 13, @03:25PM EDT (#3) (User Info) Thanks for posting this. I learned something today, which is rare for a comment section. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Best OS nobody uses by kludge_king on Wednesday October 13, @04:09PM EDT (#6) (User Info) No, that's not how any of this works. Please read the FAQ before posting. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Pervasive multithreading by kernel_kid on Wednesday October 13, @03:39PM EDT (#4) (User Info) The responsiveness is incredible. Dragging a window while playing four videos and nothing stutters. Portals 98 stutters when I move the mouse too fast. [ Reply to This ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by mp3_maniac on Wednesday October 13, @03:50PM EDT (#5) (User Info) I tried that and it set my monitor on fire. Thanks a lot. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @04:17PM EDT (#7) Heh. Nice one. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by CourtWatcher on Wednesday October 13, @04:22PM EDT (#8) (User Info) Whoosh. That was the sound of the joke going over your head. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @05:54PM EDT (#16) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by RetroRaccoon on Wednesday October 13, @06:20PM EDT (#19) (User Info) Not true at all. I've been running it for months with no problems. Maybe check your hardware? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @06:21PM EDT (#20) Actually, that's a common misconception. The spec explicitly allows it; it's the vendors who didn't implement it. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by ParanoidPolly on Wednesday October 13, @06:35PM EDT (#22) (User Info) Source? My brother-in-law says otherwise, and he has a Pentode. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Pervasive multithreading by NodeNinja on Wednesday October 13, @06:57PM EDT (#24) (User Info) Real men use a magnetized needle and a steady hand. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Interesting, but... by StylusSam on Wednesday October 13, @04:41PM EDT (#10) (User Info) This is interesting, but I think the article misses the bigger picture. Technology like this only matters when it gets cheap enough for ordinary people. Until then it's a toy for people who read Dashdot. Which, admittedly, is us. [ Reply to This ] Re:Interesting, but... by WindowManiac on Wednesday October 13, @05:10PM EDT (#12) (User Info) This. A thousand times this. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Interesting, but... by RocketRandy on Wednesday October 13, @05:26PM EDT (#13) (User Info) You must be new here. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Interesting, but... by crufty on Wednesday October 13, @06:06PM EDT (#17) (User Info) Funny, I had the exact opposite experience. Ymmv, I guess. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Karma by HexHead on Wednesday October 13, @05:31PM EDT (#14) (User Info) I'm posting this to burn karma. Please mod me down so I can feel something. [ Reply to This ] Re:Karma by StargazerSue on Wednesday October 13, @05:41PM EDT (#15) (User Info) Citation needed. Where are you getting these numbers? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Year 2000 by Anonymous Coward (Score:0) Re:Year 2000 by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @07:09PM EDT (#25) The parent's point stands, though: it depends entirely on the use case. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Links by FidoFan on Wednesday October 13, @07:17PM EDT (#26) (User Info) For anyone who wants to read more, the original announcement is on their site and there's a good technical write-up in the newsgroups. Search for it, the link is too long to paste. [ Reply to This ] Re:Links by NavNerd on Wednesday October 13, @07:29PM EDT (#27) (User Info) This is the most sensible thing I've read on Dashdot all week. Somebody mod this up. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Read the article by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @07:36PM EDT (#28) Did anyone actually read the article? Half the comments here are answering questions that are answered in the second paragraph. [ Reply to This ] 6 replies beneath your current threshold. 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