Little more than one month has passed after their release of the demo CD and now, B.E.O.S. updates it's site with fresh news. The release was a big success and their team has increased. Here's the full monty:

"The demo CD had a better success than we imagined, 2 mirrors went down due to the huge bandwidth used. The stats shows more than 5000 downloads. An other good surprise of these last 4 weeks is the important and very positive feedback from the BeOS community.

Two new coders joined us and received a full CVS access. The first one released some days later BeFree, a BeOS clone based on the FreeBSD kernel under GPL&LGPL license. I don't know if BeFree will try to reuse our code or not,but its Kernel Kit has some similarities.

If the goal is to opensource our code, it's useless and irrelevant, we already mentioned that B.E.OS will be opensource (you will be allowed to see the source code, modify it, patch it, distribute the changes), but if the goal is to 'be inspired' by what we code and recreate something 'new', we will happy to see that it could help a bit. Our second new membler, Bogdan, is now working with Victor on the Network kit, which will reached soon the 'fully completed' state."

Seems like they're making good progress. Good to know about the Network Kit. These days it's one of the key points that could make (or break) an OS. Good luck to the B.E.O.S. team.

To close, who can tell me what the BEP that i mention on the "department" is? Cookie to anyone who finds out.