I recall dual booting BeOS circa 1999/2000, on my 486dx2-66.<p>It was shockingly performant, especially with anything graphical.<p>The difficulty was no apps.<p>Brings back fond memories, nonetheless.
I'm fairly certain that BeOS never supported the 486
It was ridiculously fast on my family’s Dimension 4100 tower, which had a 750Mhz PIII in it. The 98SE install that machine shipped with was glacial in comparison, and though Win2K shrunken the gap dramatically it still wasn’t as fast as BeOS.<p>I was able to find a decent number of apps on BeBits but a lot of stuff was missing.
It had a decent number of apps, I drove it as my primary OS for a while.<p>Ended up using Linux, but it was a great OS for its time.
If only for the UI. Back then, all bring white and beige and Windows blue screenofdesthblye. Be OS was pure joy, if only to play around with. Many third-party developers (remember sharewsre) took s liking to the Be aesthetic and ran away with it.
I really do need to play with Haiku more.
"Be" .... now that's a blast from the past! :-D
Now just combine it with Cosmoe[1] so you can run it from Linux too.<p>[1] <a href="https://pappp.net/?p=95060" rel="nofollow">https://pappp.net/?p=95060</a>