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)."

Comments

Re:speak for yourself

[johnnyb]

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.

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I've always preferred GNOME. There are many, many reasons to prefer each over the other. So why only have one?

Re:speak for yourself

[tunah]

Sorry, but it _has_ to be the other way round. KDE does not begin with G and thus is unsuitable for use on GNU G/ GLinux. The upcoming GNU/GNOME G.0 must be gthe standard gdesktop. Yours sincerely, GRMS