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Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps
Gentu writes "Koki from the japanese site jpbe recently interviewed Michael Phipps, the project leader of OpenBeOS, the open source re-implementation of the BeOS. Read here for the english version of the interview where Michael is discussing the roots of the project, the current status, the roadmap, the choice of the MIT license, its relationship to YellowTAB's Zeta and the other efforts to resurrect BeOS, BeUnited and the Sun Java port and more."
AmigaOS and BeOS, both great OS's but dead in the real world and finding niche markets or just fanboys.
Embedded and media.
Like what? Linux? rofl, how about wrapping BeOS onto linux to make it useable instead of the KDE, Gnome and X/11 junk
BeOS tried to penetrate a saturated OS market and of course didn't succeed.
Why should it succeed as a free system ?
The market is still saturated. Indeed the saturation increases with the upcoming of decent Linux GUI like KDE.
And no Linux is no counterexample.
Linux did succeed because there was a huge gap on the market: professional Unix system where fucking expensive, *BSD was fucked by lawsuits and Windows was still fuckingly in its infancy. Not to mention Hurd.
This all seems like a huge, albeit well formatted waste of time.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Probably because the Unix, Linux way of doing things is pretty archaic and we all know Windows is far from perfect (and written by a convicted monopolist).
I may like KDE and run it on Linux, but compiling kernels, module code etc.. just to get a piece of hardware going is stone age technology. Computers are supposed to do all the work, we're supposed to just control them.
The Linux kernel was obselete the moment it was created.
It is only Slashbots and Linux Apologist Dittoheads who think that Linux is an example of good design; it's not.