BeOS
BeOS is a discontinued operating system, first developed by Be Inc. in 1991. It was developed to run on the PowerPC-based BeBox hardware, and ported to x86 for version 3. It was designed for multimedia applications. BeOS is POSIX-compatible but not UNIX-derived. After its discontinuation, the community is making a new operating system named Haiku, using BeOS concepts.
BeOS in emulators[edit | edit source]
The operating system is notorious for its usage of install media with multiple tracks. This makes it harder to install it in virtualization software, as converting the disc image to a format designed to only store a single track such as ISO 9660 will result in a boot error. Some tools are also known to convert the image into a multi-track format consumable by a VM, although they discard the track information in the process and write a cue file with a single track, leading to the same error.
Version list[edit | edit source]
| Version | Release date |
|---|---|
| BeOS PR1 | 1997-06 |
| BeOS PR2 | 1997-10 |
| BeOS R3 | 1998-03 |
| BeOS R3.1 | 1998-06 |
| BeOS R3.2 | 1998-07 |
| BeOS R4 | 1998-11 |
| BeOS R4.5 | 1999-06 |
| BeOS R5 | 2000-03 |
| BeOS R5.1 | 2001-11 |