The last incarnation of BeOS appeared on the scene in March 2000, ten years ago. I still have my paid disks somewhere, if anyone's taking count. I paid my money because I really wanted them to succeed. Be was the only operating system that ever caught my attention as thoroughly as AmigaOS had done many years before.


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I was really wanting to like OpenSolaris from Sun. I installed it yesterday morning before work and got far enough to see that it didn't recognize my ethernet controller. I didn't mind, though, since it had better initial video drivers than Vista did.  Got back home after work and realized that it messed up a boot record, so I had to reinstall ( Read more... )

I work at a non-profit, and we're looking for free (or very cheap) software to do some basic monitoring of our systems.  We use Windows Server 2003, and we have 5 sites.  We'd like something that does basic ping tests, of course, but it would also be handy if it can check available disk space and cpu usage statistics, maybe even the health of the ( Read more... )