On 28 Jan, Paul Abraham wrote:

Go to <A HREF="http://www.be.com"><A HREF="http://www.be.com</A">http://www.be.com</A</A>>

I've never been there but there's a review of release 4 in the UK computer magazine _Personal Computer World_ which mentions the above URL. The article states that BeOS costs GBP49.00, which probably equates to USD79.00

I'm seriously tempted.

Paul Abraham -- speaking for myself.

I installed BEos version 4 and like it. There are some nice programs that run on it. Serial Port init. is rather strange but once you see how it works... I use a matrox millenium classic 2mb pci card, a Supra express 56i modem flashed to v90, and 80mb of memory. This makes BE cruise right along. Check out www.bedepot.com for applications. I purchased a $70 office suite, a really nice email program (BEATWARE Mail-it), and a ftp program. BE is interesting at a few different levels. First, its fun to play with and see how it looks like several different things. BTW, the office suite is called productiva. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, image editing. The whole object oriented nature of BE makes graphics programs fun to use. I was using a beos boot disk but copied the be kernel to my linux partition, altered lilo.conf to include that kernel and now can boot be from lilo. There are more interactive ways but this was the easiest for me. -- Michael E. Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>