The name BeOS is one which tends to evoke either sighs of nostalgia or blank stares, mostly determined by one’s knowledge of the 1990s operating system scene. Originally released in 1995 by Be Inc., ...

You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once ...

In 1995, another PC operating system launched its first version around the same time as Windows 95 was released. It was called BeOS, and it tried to become an alternative to Windows and Mac. Last week ...

Just over 17 years since the project launched, and more than 18 years since the last release of the operating system that inspired it, the open source Haiku OS is nearing a beta release. It has been a ...

PCWorld highlights the BeBox, a revolutionary 1995 dual-PowerPC computer created by former Apple executives that featured custom BeOS designed specifically for multi-processor support. This innovative ...

Haiku is not only a Japanese short poem with a defined structure—it’s also the name of an open-source recreation of BeOS, an alternative operating system originally developed in the mid-1990s. It was ...