We don't know what to make of this release over at BeOSOnline but it is certainly an exciting bit of news, to say the least.

Our german is a -lot- rusty, but it appears to be a fully fledged R5.0.4 image file, with a number of applications and drivers thrown in for good measure.

Anyone that can read german and tell us why they are doing this Developer release (as it's called there), please let The BeOS Journal know right away so our non-german readership can know too. Thank you!

(March 19th, 00:15gmt - UPDATE) There is now an English translation on their page at: http://www.beosonline.com/index.php?seite=english