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Can BeOs Live On As Open Source?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the was-a-be-now-a-half-a-be dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Hrrmm.... by ahoehn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We can't forget to put every system made by Atari since the Lynx in that same catagory.

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  2. Are you high? by rjh · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In a uniprocessor system the lack of reentrant kernel threads allows applications to control processor time. This cooperative multitasking is ineffecient, and systems intensive.

    Linux has never had cooperative multitasking. Never. Ever. It has always been preemptively multitasking. This one sentence alone shows that either you're wording things in a manner so tragically incorrect it's comedic, or else you simply don't know beans.

    Another serious setback for Linux is the lack of a journalling file system. This makes data storage unreliable, and backup and recovery a dicey proposition. SGI said they would port the IRIX file system to Linux, but I haven't heard anything about this yet.

    ReiserFS. Ext3. IBM's JFS. SGI's XFS, as found on Irix. Do I need to go on?

    I would refute your post in depth and at length, but at this point I'm certain you're either totally uninformed or else trolling. Have a nice day. :)