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OpenBeos Is Now Haiku

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-line-needs-two-syllables dept.

teamhasnoi writes "Today at WalterCon the new name of OpenBeos has been released - Haiku! More info at the BeOS Journal. BeGroovy is reporting that Java is running on Haiku as well! All in all, a very good day for a BeOS (now Haiku) fan!"

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  1. Great name. by sethadam1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    BeOS and Naiku have a history. If you used BeOS back in the day, you'll remember that there were several hundred Haikus, some about BeOS, many about JLG himself, that were messages within the OS itself.

    Here is a ton of them
    and here is more info.

    First three to respond to this (with e-mail addresses!) get gmail invites (if they want).

  2. Oh My. by sethadam1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Separately, I'm amazed that people still do dev work for BeOS. By that, I mean, of all the open source projects to spend time on, why choose this one?! It seems there's a lot of open source projects that offer the world more value than BeOS does.

    You obviously aren't a developer. Most FLOSS developers are unpaid volunteers (most, not all). That means they do what interests them. Hey, if you're going to paint your house, why not paint mine - it needs it more. That philosophy makes no sense, right?

    BeOS developers do it because they love it. It's an excellent environment, and it's easy to write for. There's tons of great software waiting to be ported over. It's faster, by shitloads, than Linux (actually, it feels faster, but that's another story).

    The point is, whjy should a developer work on something other than what interests them, and who are you to decide what value their code offers?

    90% of the time I let my mod points expire, but today I wish I had some to mod you down.

    1. Re:Oh My. by lythotype · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "...to develop something like BeOS seems like building a ship in your basement--you know it'll never see the "real" high seas."

      The same thing could have been said about the development of Linux at one stage or another. Remember, just as Haiku is now, Linux once was also.