Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:11:17 GMT From: "J.Goodleaf" <john@goodleaf.net> To: caroluis@australia.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: informo..... Message-ID: <20010215151117.BCB805BBA@clyde.goodleaf.net> In-Reply-To: <3a8c4921.259a.0@australia.edu> References: <3a8c4921.259a.0@australia.edu>
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Carol, You've got the wrong list. This list is about the FreeBSD operating system, a robust unix operating system. You probably want to hit www.be.com and check out their information links if you want info on BeOS. For the record though, BeOS can be dual booted and comes with (or came with anyway; it's been a while for me) a reasonably good boot manager. Its primary interface is a GUI although it can run a mostly-complete UNIX style CLI. It used to come with many major GNU tools as well, which could be run in the terminal program. I once did my C programming homework on BeOS using the GNU C compiler that ran in its terminal. It does multitasking and multithreading, fully buzzword compliant. In fact, BeOS may be the snazziest OS out there in many ways. It does lack application support! Since you're here, you may want to check out FreeBSD (www.freebsd.org) which is also buzzword compliant (though its symmetric multiprocessing performance can't touch that of BeOS). FreeBSD happens to be my fave, has many applications, is very robust and stable (much more so than Be) and is also quite fast. It can be dual booted as well, but it's primary interface is CLI. It can, of course, be made to run a GUI--actually any one of a couple of dozen GUIs I guess. Good luck, John Carol Traynor writes: > Hi. My name is Carol. I would like some simple information anout theBeOS operating > system. I am doing some info technology studies and I hope you will be able > to help me. 1)I want to know what kind of interface your system has - GUI and/or > CLI. 2) Please tell me the name of your main file system and what kind of security > it has for a user. 3)Can the BeOS system support multi tasking ? (a little info > please). 4)Does BeOS have the capability to dual boot.?(if so, who.). > Thankyou so much and I hope you can help me. > Carol T. > Darwin. Australia. > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This email has been sent from Australia's Education > Internet gateway: http://www.australia.edu > Sign-up for your free email today > ------------------- ------- --------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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