# BeOS

The system Jean-Louis Gassée built from scratch in the nineties for multimedia work: aggressive multithreading, a database-backed filesystem and a responsiveness that embarrassed the competition on modest hardware. Apple nearly bought it in 1996 and bought NeXT instead. Haiku has been rebuilding it ever since.

- **Category:** Historical
- **License:** Propietario
- **Official Site:** https://www.haiku-os.org/
- **Download:** https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku
- **Original page:** https://linuxgratis.com/en/beos

## Releases

| Version | Release Date | End of Support | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| R5 | 2000-03-01 | 2001-08-01 | EOL |
| R4.5 | 1999-06-01 | 2000-03-01 | EOL |
| R3 | 1998-03-01 | 1999-06-01 | EOL |