BeBox Links
Welcome to the BeBox Zone collection of BeBox, BeOS, and Be related links. The
links are hand checked and reviewed, and specifically broken up into the
following categories:
Hardware Links
Hardware links cover any sites with BeBox hardware information. This also
extends to sites related to BeBox hardware (such as sites detailing
Blinkenlights projects and covering PowerPC issues)
- GeekLights for an
Intel based BeOS Box. Unfortunately, this page doesn't seem to have been updated
since 1999, but it has contact details for the author, and seems like an
interesting enough project to gain a place here on my links page, despite the
lack of recent updates ...
- A more active project very similar to the Geeklights project is Andreas
Känner's PulseBox
project. This project has recently been rekindled, and has all the schematics
and parts lists for building your own blinken lights (if you don't have a
BeBox). The software and hardware plans were licensed by Fujitsu-Siemens and
were used in their 1998 Silver-Line-PCs, so you can guarantee that what's on
offer is stable and robust :-)
- IBM's PowerPC
Open Platform reference design site offers design and component
specifications for a PowerPC-based, ATX form-factor motherboard, designed by
IBM. It is designed to assist developers who are interested in offering PowerPC
based Linux systems (and hopefully BeOS systems!) for the thin server or
appliance market.
- The AmigaOne site has
details about a single CPU PPC G3 and G4 based systems (no Multi-Processor
systems seem likely from this project, as it's Amiga based).
- The PowerPC Wikipedia entry
offers information about current and future PPC chips, and details about various PowerPC-based systems.
- Frizbe used to offer compatibility information for BeOS hardware,
coverting both PowerPC and Intel based hardware. Since Frizbe's disappearance, the hardware matrix has been hosted at BeDrivers.
- The BeBox Forums have a number of BeBox hardware
related forums, containing questions, answers and discussions about compatible
hardware, hardware problems and related issues.
OS for BeBox Links
These links all cover the information about running various operating systems
on a BeBox.
- For details about the various operating systems that can run on your BeBox,
click on through to the Operating Systems section of The
BeBox Zone.
- Plan9
port for the BeBox. This project seems largely to have stalled, with the
original author having moved onto work on Inferno, but it remains a very
interesting concept. You can also read a description of the work done to date,
and of Plan9 itself.
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- NetBSD port for the BeBox. Also see the
NetBSD port for
BeBox mailing list. Much more info and detail about NetBSD BeBox,
although it looks like things have stalled a bit lately.
- SheepShaver for BeOS PPC (and soon for LinuxPPC) allows the MacOS to be run natively on under BeOS PPC (on a BeBox for example).
- Linux for BeBox by William
Sowerbutts. This site contains info about a port of Linux to the BeBox. For
those interested in a Linux port to the BeBox, there is also a Be-Linux mailing
list, which I have been subscribed to for the past year or so. Not much has
happened on it recently though. Note that the original copy of this site has
been off-the-air since December 2002. I'm still waiting to hear from Will whether it's a temporary or
permanent removal ...
- Jonathan's Guide
to installing LinuxPPC on a BeBox.
- BeWine is the page for the
porting of WINE to BeOS. (WINE being another typically UNIXish recursive
acronym standing for Wine Is Not an Emulator)
- WinBe is another effort to have a
WINE like emulator for BeOS.
- The BeBox Forums have a number of forums with
questions, answers and discussion about running both BeOS and Other Operating Systems (such as LinuxPPC,
NetBSD, Plan9, MacOS and others) on a BeBox.
- HaikuOS will hopefully be portable enough for someone
to make it run on the BeBox. There's certainly been some interest in a PowerPC port, so keep your fingers crossed!
- YellowTab supposedly paid for
rights to use the BeOS source code, and claims to be developing a new extension
of the (true) BeOS in the form of Zeta. Again, there is some slim chance Zeta may
one day run on the PowerPC platform. Magnussoft has also recently launched their own
Zeta-OS site
- BlueEyedOS is another BeOS
inspired operating system, running on top of a Linux kernel. The BlueEyedOS
APIs are essentially the BeOS APIs with some improvements.
BeOS Software
These links contain software essential for any BeOS user.
- BeBits is the most comprehensive source
of BeOS software.
- Tucows maintains its own collection of
BeOS software (although the collection has recently been moved to the 'Classic
OS' section).
- OpenTracker offers free, open-source
versions of Tracker and Deskbar, the two applications that power the BeOS desktop.
- BeBits hosts an old mirror of the BeWare ftp repository. Be
aware that pretty much all of this software is waaay out of date, and was
written for relatively old versions of BeOS. Still a useful resource if you're
looking for code or ideas though.
- Apache for BeOS pages
detailing information about the port of the Apache webserver to BeOS.
- BeZilla.org is the centre of action for
the BeOS port of Mozilla/Firefox. Got some programming skills? Muck in and help! :-)
- BeDrivers.com is a website dedicated
to BeOS drivers (though unfortunately, mostly of the Intel variety).
- Desktopian.org's BeOS section offers
a nicely organised collection of links to essential BeOS software.
BeOS Development
Interested in writing your own software or assisting other developers in
writing theirs? If so, these are the links to checkout.
- BeUnited has relaunched itself
(again) as the standards portal for open source BeOS initiatives. It's great to
see some people trying to keep the community from fragmenting!
- The Be{Dev,Code}Talk FAQ
a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" for the BeDevTalk and BeCodeTalk mailing
lists.
- Be Games has recently headed in a new
direction, and begun focusing on providing gaming projects (rather than gaming
news).
- Reveng is a disassembler
for BeOS, based on the GNU objdump utility.
Be News
These are the places to go to discover the latest news, views and rumours in
the Be community.
- Be Inc.. The company that
inspired this entire site. The creators of the BeBox, BeOS, BeIA. All round
good guys. Unfortunately, they've moved on to beincorporated.com and there's nothing
worthwhile left at be.com.
- Be Groovy is an
excellent source of Be Information and News. BeGroovy also hosts the lively
BeGroovy Forums.
- The Haiku News is probably
the most active BeOS/Haiku News site on the planet.
- Be Forever has been around, well,
seemingly forever! It used to offer an alternative news source, but now has been reduced to a listing of BeOS
resources.
- LeBuzz is the authority on anything
and everything on the BeOS audio scene.
- BeOS Online is a great looking
German BeOS news and community information site.
- OSNews is not strictly a Be news site,
though it does run more than its fair share of BeOS related articles. You'll
find a healthy mix of info about *nix, the BSDs, the MacOS, QNX and others
amongst the Be news.
- BeOSNews provides the latest news
on all things BeOS related.
- IsComputerOn offers news related
to the BeOS and the BeOS community.
Be Community
Trying to find a BeOS user group? Interested in the history and gossip of the
Be community? Just want to see where we BeOS users and BeBox fanatics hang out?
Checkout these sites.
- The Haiku Podcast offers
interviews and news relevant to the Haiku OS and the BeOS.
- BeDope is the site for satirical
commentary (and the spreading of highly exaggerated rumours) about Be and the
Be community. It might take you a couple of articles to get used to the style,
but it is well worth your time and effort. Unfortunately, in February 2001,
BeDope announced it's closure. Mike has been kind enough to leave the site up
for people to look over and have a chuckle.
- BeDope may have retired, but that just made way for BeDoper, a new satirical
commentary site for BeOS fans (even if perhaps more acidic than the original
BeDope).
- The BeOS Tip Server offers hints and
tips about using, installing and configuring BeOS.
- Be Groovy is an not only an
excellent source of Be Information and News; BeGroovy also hosts the lively
BeGroovy Forums.
- The Greenboard provides a
comprehensive set of Be Users forum. There are discussion forums for a range of
Be-related topics, and a nicely designed threaded discussion listing can be
perused for each forum.
- BeOSRADIO is an Internet radio
station featuring "all-original music" created by BeOS enthusiasts and their
friends, plus hourly BeOS news, BeOS tips and tricks, and weekly "BeOS People"
interviews.
- The Unofficial
JLG blog is a completely unofficial weblog for JLG. Offers regularly
updated news and information about JLG.
- Jean-Marc Ouvré has a page with a bunch of great pictures of people
from the early days of Be Inc. Head over to his website for a look.
- Former Be Inc webmaster, Michael Alderete, writes a regular blog. If you look back through old
entries, you'll find details about
the bundle of BeBoxen he bought from the Be Inc auction.
- The BeBits Wiki is a community maintained
resource about all things related to Be Inc, the BeOS, the BeBox and the Be Community.
- ubix.org is a French BeOS information and
advocacy site, which also hosts the fr.comp.sys.be FAQ.
- BeGeistert is a website with all
the information about past and upcoming BeGeistert meetings. Don't know what
BeGeistert is? Then head over to the site and find out!
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