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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.'"

6 of 269 comments (clear)

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

    An OS should not
    Be shaped by greed and money
    Open source the world
  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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    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.

  4. 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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