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Can BeOs Live On As Open Source?
OSBlue writes: "After Palm announced the buyout of Be, Inc.'s intellectual property & Technology and after some consequent indications from several key people that Palm has no interest at Be's products and especially in BeOS, a number of the BeOS believers tried to find a new home. Some found comfort in AtheOS, others joined BeUnited's effort to license the BeOS source code, while some developers formed efforts like BlueOS and OpenBeOS. OpenBeOS consists from a number of BeOS developers who are trying to recreate the BeOS Kits in a form of a new, complete and open source Operating System that has source and if possible binary compatibility with BeOS 5. One of the most important people in this effort, Michael Phipps, is interviewed by OSNews.
All ahead of their time technologically.
BeOS was less ahead of its time than the others. It was simply a desktop OS that was coded from the ground up to be snappy and recognize that people want to run fancy real-time graphical programs and not just word processors and databases. BeOS didn't do anything that hadn't been done before; it simply did those things well.
Since C++ is a pathetically inappropriate language for OS development (IMNSHO of course;) I hope BeOS dies a graceful death.
There, now I feel better! :-)
Seriously if you want something that plays in mostly the same space (except it is written in C, is well designed, has hard realtime capabilities, and is a commercial success) check out QNX.
299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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It is X appologists like you that are keeping Linux away from the mainstream desktop.
X sucks. Period.
If you think otherwise perhaps you have just grown "accustomed" to it.
I have used X with just about every combo of X server/window manager/graphics card and it just doesn't cut it for a modern desktop. I hate to use it and I know it very well. Say what you will about Mac/BeOS/Windows etc but when it comes down to it... each of those desktops (not OS but desktop) kick the crap out of anything on Linux.