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BeOS R5 is the final version of BeOS from Be Inc. It was released in March 2000, and came in two varieties: Professional and Personal.
The VirtualBox Guest Additions support Windows and Linux. This includes multiple versions of Linux, but we can’t guarantee they’ll run on every single distribution. Even if the Guest Additions install properly, you can’t necessarily count on every possible feature working correctly. Max is a ‘distribution’ of the free personal edition of BeOS R5, originally released 6 years ago by Be Inc. Vasper started working on BeOS Max long before Zeta came to life and in the years after Be closed down it was of the two actively developed systems, to other being Developer edition also based on PE. Get BeOS 5 PE Max V4 beta 1 here, a development report is viewable here.
R5 was the 4th major release of BeOS for a public audience, and the 6th since it left developer-only stages. It changed only slightly from the previous release, BeOS R4.5, and was even seeded to developers as 'R4.6'. Improved POSIX compliance, particularly in the area of networking, was provided. The OS in general was moved towards the new modular media kit over the former audio-only sound subsystem. For end-users, new logos and some new icons were the only major differences.
R5 was the first release of BeOS for x86 to have a freely downloadable version which could be fully installed on a user's hard drive; previous versions had a free Live CD download, which could not be installed. R5 was also to be the last version to support the PowerPC architecture which BeOS had originated on, including the company's own BeBox hardware. According to Be's marketing, it was the first OS to ship with legalMP3 encoding and decoding support.
Versions[edit]
Personal Edition[edit]
Personal Edition, a 48MB download, was the most commonly used version of R5. Stripped of developer tools (though these were later made available as a separate download), mp3 and Indeo encoders, and RealPlayer, it was installed into a 500MB 'hardfile' through Windows or Linux, and could be booted either directly from Windows 9x or DOS, or using a boot floppy. Once booted, it could be installed to a real hard drive or partition, and the Be Bootloader could be installed to allow dual-booting. This bootloader uses only the MBR of the hard disk, and will continue to function even if the BeOS is uninstalled.
Apr 23, 2016 But that was after i had given a game real time priority. Now while running other apps my PC randomly slows down and i have to restart it. Even while running the app i gave real time priority. Before i could run online games like begone just fine but now after 20. Realtime priority means that any input the process sends will be processed in real time as far as possible, sacrificing everything else to do so. Since 1615, it will prioritise running that game’s internal processes over anything including your inputs. Feb 27, 2018 Base process priority class. Individual thread priorities, offsets of the base priority class. An option to reset the class, some games automatically reset their state back to normal. Vista or newer Windows systems, use of the Multimedia Class Scheduler which is the proper way to achieve real-time operations in what is not a real-time OS. It works, for the most part, though is not perfect since the OS. The higher the priority level to prefer foreground applications, the more resources are allocated to the user processes. There are essentially six priority levels available to processes in Windows: Real-time; High; Above normal; Normal; Below normal; Low; Real-time is the highest priority class available to a process. Real time priority for games online.
Professional Edition[edit]
Professional Edition was only available commercially, and for the first time in BeOS's history, could not be purchased from the company unless you were a developer. Instead, a number of regional resellers sold it - Gobe Software in the United States, Apacabar and Koch Media in Europe, and Hitachi in Asia. These resellers were responsible for all packaging of the OS, from localisation to CD labelling and packaging. As a result, some variations exist between packaged R5 Professional discs, with some being slipstream updated to the newest patches, and most notably, the inclusion of commercial printer drivers with Gobe releases, and French translations of the user documentation on Apacabar.
The CD shipped with an ISO9660/HFS hybrid partition, containing documentation, GPL licensed source code, the Personal Edition installer (with the aim of you circulating the installer to friends), a copy of Partition Magic for Windows, and the Mac OS boot-loading code for the PowerPC version. Two separate BFS partitions existed, one for x86, one for PowerPC, and the x86 one is directly bootable from CD.
In addition to all the features of Personal Edition, Professional Edition includes the full developers tools, including a rebranded CodeWarrior, RealPlayer G2, Fraunhofer MP3 encoders, and support for both encoding Indeo video, and playback/encoding of Indeo Real Time. Additional media on the CD varied by supplier, but always included some sample multimedia files, including two songs composed by Be staff ('5038' and 'virtual (void)') as well as a video of Be staff pushing computer monitors off the roof of their building in Menlo Park.
Updates[edit]
Three updates for R5 were released during 2000.
R5.01[edit]
R5.01 was mainly a stability fix for R5 Professional, fixing some deadlocks in drivers and critical servers. However, additional POSIX support was again added for networking, although the update neglected to include the newer headers to use some of these functions - they were only available in an updated Developer Tools for Personal Edition download.
R5.02[edit]
R5.02 (marked as R5.01 on personal) contained all of R5.01's updates, as well as some enhanced drivers, and more stability fixes.
R5.03[edit]
R5.03 was solely a security fix, and fixed a remote-access bug in the system's ftpd. The update, however, made a change to the core C library to do this, and in doing so, updated the version of glibc it was based on, again providing slightly more POSIX compatibility.
Succession[edit]
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Following the failure of BeIA, Be's Internet Appliance venture, the company ceased operations, and R5 was the last official release. A widely leaked version of BeOS that had been seeded to developers, codenamed Dano, carried many new features, and a build ID indicating it was BeOS R5.1.0.
Another extremely widely leaked update is a new, fully POSIX compliant, kernel-land networking stack, known internally in Be as BONE. While officially alpha, this brings higher stability to R5, as well as opening up the application base available. The updater for BONE Alpha 7 increases the system version number to R5.04.
ZETA was accepted by some BeOS users as a successor to R5, however legal issues surrounding how Magnussoft obtain Be Inc's source code later lead to the discontinuation of the product. However, at least during its protracted release candidate stage, it was dogged with problems that left some people using R5, and in some cases, looking to Haiku for the future of their OS.
Haiku OS, now on its beta release, is now the last surviving successor to BeOS. Although deemed by the developers as beta software, the stability, compatibility with BeOS binaries and feature-completeness make Haiku OS a viable option today. Haiku has even improved on BeOS, and includes features never implemented into BeOS, including: wifi support; the layout kit; a unique package manager; and support for x64 processors and modern hardware.
External links[edit]
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It appears I missed my 10 year anniversary of using a non Microsoft OS (not counting a TI99/4A and a BBC Masters Compact). Apparently the March 1999 edition of PCPlus magazine (a hard magazine to find in Ireland back then) had a LiveCD for BeOS. I was doing CS in Uni at the time but it was up till then concentrated on Windows. I wasn’t entirely sure if it was going to break my install, the idea of something running off of CD was strange and I had only just started using the Internet so alternate OSes were not something I’d really been in contact with (actually at this point even in Uni you had to join Netsoc to get Internet as it was not provided and I was using it for about 6 months for the princely sum of £5 Irish pounds, £3 for just email… which hilariously I had gotten the year before and not known anyone with an email account). The whole FOSS thing kinda happened some time after this… I think. Or I had perhaps tried a Mandrake disk on a spare HDD, but I’m really not sure.
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So last week not being particularly busy I decided I’d give Haiku a shot. It’s in very early Alpha stage right now and only provides VMWare images. I don’t use VMWare, so I figured must be a way to get it running on VirtualBox. There is and it’s nice and easy. Download the latest raw disk image and unzip. Then use VBoxManage application that comes with VirtualBox (I’m still on v2)
VBoxManage convertdd haiku-alpha-gcc4.image ~/.VirtualBox/VDI/haiku-alpha-gcc4.vdi
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And you are good to go, you can now select it as a disk image in the manager. The Computer Action Show guys bizarrley enough covered it in their last episode so best to listen/watch them if you want an in depth review! I got bored rapidly when there wasn’t really anything I could think to do with it! 🙂