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AtheOS Fork Brings BeOS on Top of Linux

Posted by timothy on from the bwa-ha-ha dept.

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)."

6 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. new name! by Arctic+Fox · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's GnuBe/Linux to you sir....

    1. Re:new name! by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 3, Funny

      GnuBe...

      is that Guh-noo-bee

      or is the 'g' silent:
      NewBie?

      AAAAAGH! That's just wrong!

      "What are you Running"....

      "Oh I'm a newbie!"

      Yikes!

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      "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
    2. Re:new name! by h4x0r-3l337 · · Score: 3, Funny

      How about: "BeAtCH" ?
      (we'll figure out later what the 'CH' stands for)

  2. So why call it New Atheos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seems to me it would be more appropriate to call it BtheOS.

    But, hey, it's his fork, he can call it Fred if he wants to.

  3. Shouldn't there be... by be-fan · · Score: 3, Funny

    A "Like OSNews except slower on the uptake" department?

    --
    A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
  4. Re:How close will it come to BeOS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're right, that time has come and passed us! I'm playing 9 *different* avi's now (served over 100Mbit NFS btw), 3 mp3's *backwards* (haha, another stupid benchmark thrown in :), with xawtv in a corner, and typing this message in mozilla 0.9.9, and I still have CPU cycles to spare! Linux rocks ;-)

    Stop, you're scaring my Windows partition.