For those of you who don't have enough to do what with PICs, Linux, Big Bill's products and more, here's something else to fill your day. Seeing its free (TANSTAAFL) and techo and people here have such weird tastes (erg PICs :-)) I hope I may be excused telling you about it. The very highly spoken of BeOS operating system version V has just been released and a personal version is available for free - see below for details. This should help keep the PICList message volume up - "Has anyone written an MPLAB driver for BeOS yet?", "Unsubsribble BeOSList" etc :-) I understand that (no care, no responsibility) - Converts say that BeOS is everything Windows should have been and isn't. It can be launched from within Windows (but removes Windows from memory to run). Can be safely dual-loaded with Window It makes its own partition without destroying the system. Needs ?500 MB spare disk space or so ON C: DRIVE to load. You get the PERSONAL version free - it's fully operational but there are more capable versions which are not free. enjoy, Russell McMahon _____________________________ - www.easttimor.com Updated regularly: 100,000 refugees STILL in West Timor face starvation! - www.sudan.com And you think Kosovo and Chechnya are bad! What can one man* do? Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! at http://www.thehungersite.com/ (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BeOS 5 Information and Download You are receiving this email because you signed up at free.be.com to be notified when BeOS 5 Personal Edition was available for download. BeOS 5 Personal Edition is now available, free, for download at the mirror sites listed below. Check the BeOS Ready List for information on what hardware BeOS 5 supports: http://www.be.com/support/guides/beosreadylist_intel.html Find out what's new in BeOS 5 in the Latest Release Features: http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/latestrelease.html Thanks to innovative new technology from Be, you can download BeOS 5 Personal Edition via a Web browser and store it as a file within Windows. No repartitioning is necessary, and launching BeOS 5 is as simple as double-clicking an icon on your desktop. Before downloading and installing BeOS 5 Personal Edition, please read the Readme file for important information. http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/beos5readme.html Download BeOS 5 Personal Edition (40 MB) from any of the following locations: Name/Location URL - Americas - Ziff-Davis http://www.zdnet.com U.S. (not available until after 3/28 12:00 noon EST) CNET/Download.com http://download.cnet.com California, U.S. (not available until after 3/28 12:00 noon EST) BeOSCentral ftp://www.beoscentral.com/pub Johnson City, TN BeForever ftp://www.beforever.com/pub/beforever/freebe Omaha, NE RoadRunner.Com ftp://mirrors.rochester.rr.com/pub/be Rochester, NY Be, Inc. ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/beos San Jose, CA - Europe/Australia - AARNet ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/beos Brisbane, Australia World Online ftp://ftp.worldonline.fr/pub/BeOs Paris, France PH-Freiburg ftp://ftp.ph-freiburg.de/pub/mirrors/ftp.be.com/beos Freiburg, Germany ComputerChannel http://www.computerchannel.de/download/beos Hamburg, Germany Neues-3Sat Online ftp://ftp.zdf.de/pub Mainz, Germany Univ. of Milan http://pcteor1.mi.infn.it/beos Milan, Italy (not available until after 3/28 12:00 noon EST) XS4All ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/Beos Amsterdam, Netherlands Via-Net-Works ftp://ftp.esoterica.pt/pub/beos Lisbon, Portgual http://ftp.esoterica.pt/pub/beos SUNET ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/BeOS Uppsala, Sweden http://ftp.sunset.se/pub/os/BeOS/ Also, look for us at http://www.tucows.com within the next few days. Check http://free.be.com for any late changes. Happy downloading and welcome to the BeOS community! --- You are currently subscribed to free-beos as: apptech@clear.net.nz To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-free-beos-131448C@listbeast.be.com