I did a search in this forum, but unable to find a compatrison with my quick and dirty search, I was wanting to ask which BeOS Distribution would be recommended, PE, Developer’s edition, or Max Edition? What are the pros and cons of each? Which is most compatable with software? Which does Haiku compilation and intermingling best?
Just a little background, I have an AMD64 w/ 1 GB of RAM, but am willing to run Bochs or QEmu (Any recommendations between the two).
DevEd and Max are PE + drivers + 3rd party apps, all of which are ( or at least were ) available at http://bebits.com
IMHO, you’d be best off starting with tb100’s athlon patched “distro” or the original PE, apply the necessary patches and download only the software you want.
will it be tedious? yes, but it’ll be a good learning experience in using BeOS.
I’m not quite sure if any of them will work because of the AMD 64 - I’m not sure how the R5 kernel (patched or otherwise) will react to it, particularly PE. Of the distros, my personal favorite is Max Edition. Developer Edition, last I knew, came with a buggy compiler. A completely unpatched R5 PE has very spotty support for any Athlons, Pentium 4’s and any other recent chips. You might be able to get Max Edition to work on your system if you pull out some RAM so that you have less than 1GB - the R5 kernel has a memory limitation bug which has a RAM-limiting patch on BeBits.
As much as I prefer free (as in beer) solutions, if I were you, I’d get hold of Zeta - it would be a lot less trouble because AMD64’s are supported and there is no RAM limit.
You *might* be able to get Max Edition to work on your system if you pull out some RAM so that you have less than 1GB - the R5 kernel has a memory limitation bug which has a RAM-limiting patch on BeBits.
i thought net_server would run with 1gb ram
and that BONE enabled BeOS’s are limited to ~768mb.
I’ve been wrong before but I’m 90% sure that the 1GB limitation is actually a limitation because of some memory architecture problems inside the kernel. IIRC, the sum total of video card RAM + system RAM can’t be greater than 1GB or BeOS won’t boot. The patch I mentioned being on BeBits actually limits the amount of RAM reported to the system so that it’ll boot.