BeIA

BeIA, short for BeOS for Internet Appliances, was a discontinued embedded operating system that Be Inc. built between 2000 and 2001 as a minimized version of its BeOS for x86 and PowerPC hardware. Rather than booting to a conventional desktop, it launched directly into a web browser based on Opera 4.0, called Wagner, typically including a built in dashboard. It used specialized compression to keep its footprint small, including a proprietary compressed file system and a compressed executable format called CELF that applied patented compression to program code. BeIA never gained real market traction, and it was discontinued after Be Inc.'s finances collapsed and Palm, Inc. acquired its assets, a fate sealed in part by the commercial failure of internet appliances such as the Sony eVilla that it was meant to run. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/