Once upon a time – around 1999-2000, specifically – I was lucky enough to find myself present during one of the more exciting periods in the history of Be Inc. and the BeOS. A big aspect that made me enjoy being a BeOS user and enthusiast in those days was the amount of activity on the great BeOS-related news sites. In addition to informing the BeOS community, we were also inspired by the enthusiasm of editors like Scot Hacker and Dane Scott.

After a few depressing years for BeOS fans, our fortunes seem to be improving. We’re far past the doom-and-gloom despair of the era of Focus Shifts and plummeting stock prices. New sites like HaikuNews, IsComputerOn and ZetaNews have filled in the gaps left by the departure of some of the old-timers, and BeGroovy and BeBits show no signs of going away any time soon. And with the release of Zeta 1.0 and the steady progress of the Haiku project, interest in BeOS-related OSes is steadily increasing.

This gradual BeOS revival – and the availability of the BeOSNews.com domain name – inspired us to create a new BeOS news site. The site is in its infancy right now, but we didn’t want to wait any longer to launch and risk missing all the cool stuff going on in the BeOS world right now.

So welcome to BeOSNews.com – we hope you enjoy it and feel free to post your comments!

– Jason and Stephen, aslo known as the BeDoper guys

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