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From: "J.Goodleaf" <john@goodleaf.net>
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:11:17 GMT
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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. 
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