OpenBeOS Gets Binary-Compatible Network Stack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 16, 2002 @11:23AM from the beingness-not-nothing dept.

eexlebots writes: "While there is much yet to be done, the OpenBeOS team (whose goal is to rebuild the BeOS part by part, server by server, with source AND binary compatibility) have been testing an early build of a binary-compatible replacement for the much-maligned net_server. Netpositive (the default BeOS browser) can now fetch web pages from a local server using the new stack. While the new stack is still dangerously buggy, it's a huge step forward for the OpenBeOS team. For the official scoop, check out the OpenBeOS website, as well as this screenshot."

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I don't get it by kraf · 2002-04-16 17:45 · Score: 1, Interesting

BeOS' strength was its clean and new design.
By conforming to the binary result of this design these hackers are missing the whole point.

Get over it, BeOS is dead, binary emulation of it is just pathetic, you will be always left in the dark by not being allowed to take a look at the source code, and reverse engineering is a pain.

Why not take its design paradigms and build something new in the same fashion.
This is how Be got started, remember ?