Dano is the build codename and most commonly used name to refer to a leaked R5.1 prerelease of the BeOS operating system. With a build date professing to be 15 November2001, the day of Be Incorporated's closure, Dano features an improved network stack, initial support for 802.11bwireless networking, some 3D acceleration-capable graphics drivers, a redesigned graphical user interface, a replacement USB subsystem with USB mass storage support, as well as other improvements. Many of these features had been promised for BeOS R5 a year earlier and not delivered. A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. ... BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Incorporated in 1991. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Be, Incorporated was the company that developed the BeOS operating system and BeBox computer. ... A protocol stack is a particular software implementation of a computer networking protocol suite. ... IEEE 802. ... Wireless networks are telephone or computer networks that use radio as their carrier or physical layer. ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... A device driver, often called a driver for short, is a computer program that enables another program, typically an operating system (OS), to interact with a hardware device. ... A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ... BeOS R5 is the final version of BeOS from Be Incorporated. ...
In a potential move towards the system becoming capable of being open source, many licence fee encumbered items had been removed, including the mp3encoding software being replaced with LAME, and OpenSSL replacing the RSA Encryption Engine in the NetPositiveweb browser. ... MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardized in 1991 by a team of engineers directed by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. ... The word encoding has a number of meanings. ... LAME is an open source MP3 (that is, MPEG-1 audio layer 3) audio compression application. ... OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. ... NetPositive is the default browser that comes with the BeOS operating system. ... It has been suggested that Comparison of web browsers be merged into this article or section. ...
The yellowTAB ZETA operating system is based in the majority on Dano. yellowTAB ZETA is an operating system developed by yellowTAB of Germany based on the BeOS operating system developed by Be Incorporated. ...
BeOS does not correctly handle CPU frequencies above 2.1GHz and miscalculates the internal cv_factor that is used to map the time stamp counter (how many cylces have passed) to the current system uptime.
On BeOS R5 this is not the case and this is the reason for the system_time_patch.
R5 was the 4th major release of BeOS for a public audience, and the 6th since it left developer-only stages.
R5 was the first release of BeOS for x86 to have a freely downloadable version which could be fully installed on a user's hard drive; previous versions had a free Live CD download, which could not be installed.
A widely leaked version of BeOS that had been seeded to developers, codenamedDano, carried many new features, and a build ID indicating it was BeOS R5.1.0.
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