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HaikuOS Registrar Working

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fix-your-class-schedule dept.

Professor Cool Linux writes "'The registrar, the app server's shy brother, who manages several system-wide application services like the application roster, the MIME types database, the clipboard, and message runners, is now working under HaikuOS.'"

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  1. Significant progress indeed by Blowfishie · · Score: 5, Informative
    Haiku is basically rebilding BeOS from scratch open-source style, so getting one of the fundamental building blocks working in such a way that it allows non-GUI apps to run is a great achievement.

    The status page has more details on the overall system progress. When I first visited that page, I though that it would take forever to finish. I looked again just now and got a most optimistic feeling.

    1. Re:Significant progress indeed by mabhatter654 · · Score: 3, Insightful
      How was BeOS lacking? The only thing lacking was their legal team couldn't break MS monopoly contracts. BeOS is a much cleaner platform for the internet age than just about anything else [except maybe amegia]. The way everything could just "work" together would have completely revolutionized the software industry... Although the BeOS model is much better for OSS development than properitary. It's extremely modular, that's the whole point of the OSS working to recreate it one module at a time!!!

      Seriously though, BeOS had features in 1999 that MS and Apple are braging about "innovating" in their OS NEXT YEAR!!! Of course Apple has hired some of those BeOS programmers to add the feature to tiger...so in a way they are getting their kudos.

  2. Re:Not wanting to sound insensitive... by capoccia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SO?
    RTFA -- "...in principle we should now be able to run most non-graphical applications."

    Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often...
    Aye.

    ...this doesn't belong on Slashdot...
    Operating system news is about as much nerd as you can get. It's also open-source, so feel free to cannibalize.

  3. HaikuOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    leaves falling softly
    to untouched green expanses
    LET BEOS DIE