[openbeos] Re: BeOS Links (aaaagh!)
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:41:58 +0200 (MEST)
Hmmm, I don't know what university you are in, but in my engineering school,
the admins^Wdirectors are so frightened about "security", that we aren't even
allowed to have a ~login/ on the website... for a school having students on CS
and networking, it's really abnormal I should say...
At least not every school is like this in France :)
François.
En réponse à David Shipman <unlyrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Is there any site left where you can download BeOS Software. I spend
>
> > three
> > on BeBit trying to get some games, and apps and everyone I wanted was
>
> > gone.
> > God, that so so sad.
>
> Thats a valid point. BeBits is a great site, and without it, I know a
> lot of people
> wouldn't have a clue where to start with BeOS; but a lot of the links
> are simply
> broken; quite often the original author has moved on to other things
> and the
> software is no longer available.
>
> The basic problem is - BeBits doesn't actually host the files; nor
> should they -
> the costs in bandwidth alone would be quite prohibitive.
>
> What we need (and I'm not offering solutions here - just ideas), is
> something akin
> to Aminet - a combined public archive of beos software; I'm sure plenty
>
> of ISPs
> and universities would be more than happy to host mirrors (if asked in
>
> the right
> way)
>
> David Shipman
>
>
>
>
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