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Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-back-in-time dept.

Technical Writing Geek writes "The Haiku project, which began shortly after the death of BeOS in 2001, aims to bring together the technical advantages of BeOS and the freedom of open source. 'The project has drawn dozens of contributors who have written over seven million lines of code. Although Haiku is nearly feature-complete, there are still numerous bugs that must be fixed before it is ready for day-to-day use. The design principles behind Haiku are very closely aligned with those of BeOS. The central goal of the Haiku project is to create an operating system that is ideally suited for use on the desktop--this differs significantly from Linux and other open-source operating systems which are intended for use in a diverse range of settings including server and embedded environments.'"

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  1. Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    An OS should not
    Be shaped by greed and money
    Open source the world
    1. Re:Haiku by FarrisGoldstein · · Score: 1, Funny

      Haiku as a name fits the bill For an OS that's over the hill Pretentious, contrived And kept barely alive By nerds with no witty rhyme skill

  2. Re:Links by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

    A direct link in the summery would have been nice Maybe it's still wintery in the submitter's hemisphere ?

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  3. Greed and money by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Greed and money,
    Like a thicket of beard,
    Obscure good and sunny:
    Let all things be sheared.
    Burma Shave

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
    1. Re:Greed and money by ehrichweiss · · Score: 5, Funny

      Haiku is easy But sometimes they don't make sense Refrigerator

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    2. Re:Greed and money by Floritard · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's not a haiku you western swine.

    3. Re:Greed and money by mingrassia · · Score: 2, Funny

      >> Haiku is easy
      >> But sometimes they don't make sense
      >> Refrigerator

      Seen that one before
      I bought the shirt on Threadless
      Click the URL

      http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_are_easy_but

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  4. What was the point of BeOS/Haiku? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ok, so its "designed for the desktop", and apparently really good at multimedia or something? I've never understood exactly what this stuff means. Multimedia works just great on my Windows XP machine. Could someone explain to me in a not too technical way, just why BeOs was significant?

  5. Re:Feature-complete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So it's closer to being ready for release than KDE4? In KDE release terms, it's version 5.4, and ready for production use.
  6. Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source by thewiz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great... Just what I need, more zombied processes.

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  7. Foiled by the submit button? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    The submit button
    Made your post into a line
    Like a fencing foil?

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  8. Re:First poem by JK_the_Slacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be using Minix on my laptop right now, if it supported the wireless card.

    I see a lot of shortcomings in Minix. It's a toy os, and that doesn't satisfy me. I think I'll make my own. Yeah, that's the ticket.

    (With apologies to Linus Torvalds)

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  9. Whippersnappers by BenEnglishAtHome · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how many of our youthful readers are staring at your post, muttering "WTF?"

    Poor kids...

  10. Re:First poem by beav007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Less support than Unix, no wireless - lame.