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AtheOS Fork Brings BeOS on Top of Linux
Eugenia writes: "Yup, Bill Hayden has forked AtheOS by using its app_server and Interface Kit (along with some other of its kits, like the filesystem layer) and ported it on top of the 2.4.x Linux kernel, without the need for X11. He already has the graphical environment working, and he also has some BeOS apps recompiled and working under Linux. Why BeOS applications? Because that was the reason of the fork. Exactly because AtheOS and BeOS have similar technical principles (highly multithreaded, truly preemptive, similar C++ API etc), by modifying AtheOS's API to match BeOS, Bill is trying to resurrect the BeOS. By doing so this way, Bill is already way ahead from the other two efforts to ressurect BeOS, OpenBeOS (dependant on the 'clean' NewOS kernel) and BlueOS (which depends on Linux and X11)."
The desktop users dont care about network transparency. DESKTOP Linux = Mandrake, Lycoris, etc etc, the Linux for people like you, Debian Linux, Redhat Linux, Slackware.
Face it, most ordinary users, in fact i'd say most linux users currently, dont care about that stuff, the corperate users and hackers are the only ones wo care.
Theres more mandrake users than theres debian and slackware users combined.
Redhat outnumbers everyone but redhats not a desktop linux.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Yes, all of the gnome people SHOULD have quit bitching and joined KDE. This ceaseless reduplication of efforts hurts the community and damages the prospects of an open-source system ever evolving real standards or gaining mass-market mindshare.