BeBox News from 2003

After a long wait, the content of the old BeBox Forums is now available for browsing and searching.

Want to snag a piece of BeBox history? A very rare, dual 200MHz 603e PowerPC BeBox is for auction at eBay.

You love the blinkenlights on the front of your BeBox. You love watching them bounce up and down with the processor load. But somehow, it's not enough. You want more LED action! How about installing some RAM with its own set of blinkenlights?

Late on Friday, Microsoft announced that it will pay more than (US)$23 million to settle an antitrust suit filed by Be Incorporated.

Charles Forsyth, who ported Plan9 (the distributed operating system from Bell Labs) to the BeBox quite some time ago, has released the source code for much of his port.

The O'Reilly and Associates book "Programming The Be Operating System" is now available to download in PDF format.

Don't own a BeBox? Always been curious about exactly how the blinkenlights look on a running BeBox? Or maybe you just can't get enough of blinkenlights? Cameron Mac Millan has captured 30 seconds of blinkenlights action on his BeBox. Read on for details ...

The BeOSJournal is reporting that Brian "alphaseinor" Hague has recently released an update of his Blink project. Want blinkenlights for your x86 box? Read on ...

Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) has posted an article comparing the PPC and the x86 architectures on a number of levels: performance, Vector processing and Power Consumption differences, architectural differences, RISC Vs CISC and more. Read on for why the next-gen BeBox should still be PowerPC based.

Beyond my control, my new web hosting company had catastrophic problems with the server which The BeBox Zone is hosted on.

OSNews has published a fairly extensive review of the Pegasos platform. Eugenia tests both the Amiga-like MorphOS and Debian GNU/Linux running on the Pegasos hardware. There is also mention of alternative OSs (including OpenBeOS).

The BeBox Zone and the BeBox Forums have recently been (suddenly) moved to a new hosting company. Read on for some inconvenient side effects.

According to a story at LeBuzz (which surfaced from the recent begeistert 10) work is underway to port the NewOS, one of the many BeOS derivative operating systems, to the new Pegasos PowerPC machines. Further rumour and innuendo then suggests that a port of OpenBeOS to the PowerPC platform could follow. So could this mean OpenBeOS for the BeBox?

Scot Hacker has recently made copies of his historical musings about the BeOS and the BeBox available at his personal website. The articles cover both his early BeHive articles from ZDNet and his later BeView articles from Byte.com. Enjoy!

After much waiting, and a lot of behind-the- scenes effort, version 3 of The BeBox Zone has finally been launched. Welcome aboard!

A mirror of the Linux for BeBox information that used to exist at Will Sowerbutt's site has now been added to The BeBox Zone.

Keen for some dedicated BeOS geek time? BeGeistert 10 will be held at the end of April. For the first time, it will be held at the Düsseldorf Youth Hostel, a short walk from the Altstadt. Be quick though, the deadline for registration is March 27th.

Read on for more information!

Steve Sakoman, co-founder of Be Inc, former Newton project leader at Apple, and most recently, chief product officer at PalmSource has come full circle. CNet today announced that Sakoman has rejoined Apple as a vice-president.