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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

BeOS max edition v4 out now!

After a short period of development, today Vasper released a first beta of BeOS Max 4. Max is a 'distribution' of the free personal edition of BeOS R5, originally released 6 years ago by Be inc. Vasper started working on BeOS Max long before Zeta came to life and in the years after Be closed down it was of the two actively developed systems, to other being Developer edition also based on PE.

After the third version Vasper decided that he would not start working on a fourth version, but on a Haiku distro instead. However last January he announced that work on Max v4 had started, as a 'test case' for the planned Haiku distribution, and now three months later the first beta of v4 is done and available for testing.

Get BeOS 5 PE Max V4 beta 1 here, a development report is viewable here.

Labels: software

3 Comments:

What about AC97 and 1280x1024 support ?

By ulysess, at 3/23/2007 08:27:00 AM
Most AC97 audio cards work with Max out of the box (I have 3 systems with AC97 audio and all work), and screen resolution has to do with video cards. A supported video card can go as high as you want on a screen that can support it.

By Vassilis, at 3/24/2007 11:48:00 PM
Hi.

Thank you for all your efforts.

I am currenlty running Xubuntu Linux
on a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. It works perfect but I used to run BeOS back in 1997 before the company went out of business.

I would like to try your version. What are the correct steps to install BeOS max? I burned a copy last night but for some reason my laptop reads the cd but then starts running Xubuntu again from my hard drive. What am I doing wrong???

Thanks for your help.

By Anonymous, at 4/10/2007 10:20:00 PM