- #BEOS THEME FOR WINDOWBLINDS UPDATE#
- #BEOS THEME FOR WINDOWBLINDS SKIN#
- #BEOS THEME FOR WINDOWBLINDS PATCH#
Update: At least the WindowBlinds skiners are working hard.
#BEOS THEME FOR WINDOWBLINDS SKIN#
Just today, one day after OSNews helped spread the news about the existance of the screenshots in question, JT Folden has created a ‘BeOS 6’ skin for the WindowBlinds theme engine that runs under Microsoft Windows.
#BEOS THEME FOR WINDOWBLINDS UPDATE#
UPDATE 2: A former Be engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, confirmed to OSNews that the specific screenshots are likely real. “I just love how the “BeOS Community” is two pages of forum users, less than 20 in count.” The version of BeOS shown in the pictures is the BeOS desktop-version that was in use internally at Be for development of BeIA (otherwise known as the “BeIA Development Platform”).
Try going onto BeShare (a file-sharing and chat program for BeOS), there is way more than 20 people on there.Īnd as for the Titanic, it has not sunken yet. It is just not being maintained anymore because the entire crew has been fired. It is not going anywhere (eg forward) for a while, but it has not sunken just quite yet! Sure, it will probably start rusting and sink eventually. We, the passengers, would like to maintain it ourselves, but we would need the original blueprints for that, which have been sold to Palm. That is why the more technical among the passengers have started replacing parts of the ship one-by-one. Others are trying to get the blueprints from Palm. There is already a new, working radio (read: Mail Daemon), but that is only the start. (Let’s just hope Jack still drowns though ? There is work being done on a new deck, a new hull, a new engine.Įventually, we will have a new ship and we’ll be able to sail on.
#BEOS THEME FOR WINDOWBLINDS PATCH#
It would be nice if BeOS rose from the dead – they could code-name it something cool like Pheonix or… Messiah…! ? Hopefully if it’s a throwaway GPL from Palm, we could patch the holes and cobble together a running version again.
And if it’s open-sourced and Free, it’s theoretically impossible to kill. And I’m getting tired of switching OSes every year… If BeOS came back as just another Palm project, it could die with the next spending cut. I’ve always wanted a Mac, that’s how I found the “Mac-like” BeOS… The one thing that irks me about Apple is that I can’t get at ALL the source code. I know I’m a freak, but I don’t REALLY trust any of these big companies NOT to screw me over. Seeing the source is important to me, just so I can clean out any backdoors/logging stuff. If BeOS came back under an OpenSource license, I’d have enough faith in its survivability to stick with it. Otherwise, I’d value the long-term survivability of Macs over the fleeting joy of BeOS.Įugenia, this is real. I dunno if JBQ has been staying in touch with the right people to be able to verify it for you. If you *do* know one way or another, you should think very carefully about your journalistic integrity. Claiming that it’s real when you know it’s fake, or claiming that it’s fake when you know it’s real will make you look bad. It might be safer just to say “hey, folks, somebody posted some very interesting screenshots…. I doubt BeUnited will be allowed to have access to it. BeUnited’s goal is to be legitimate and legal. *Some* people are still working on BeOS on their own, under the table. IMHO that’s fine as long as you DON’T LEAK IT *ahem* and as long as nobody does it for commercial profit. Anyone who spent several years at Be Inc pouring all your effort into BeOS would feel some attachment. Why can’t the world stop speculating over a few screenshots and go back to ignoring BeOS again? *sigh* My guess is that once Palm took over, some engineers left, others transferred to Palm, but not everybody got rid of their backups of the dano/exp source.īEOS IS DEAD. The vertical scroll bar appears about 1 pixel wider than the “Grow” icon used to resize the window.
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