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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. First poem by snarfies · · Score: -1, Redundant

    BeOS, how grand.
    Too bad no-one uses it.
    Oh well, nevermind.

  2. I suck at poetry by ZOMFF · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Haiku OS,
    Resurrected Open Source,
    BeOS is not dead.

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    Launch every sig.
  3. Re:Greed and money by ehrichweiss · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Foiled by the submit button!!

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

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    0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
  4. Re:Interesting.... by log0n · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hrm, I do remember BeOS being advertised a real-time OS. Highly responsive UI was a side effect of the whole thing being real time. I remember all those demo videos demonstrating pegging the cpu to the max while still having a completely functional system.

    I could be wrong as well, but I'm pretty sure BeOS was going for realtime (a la QNX, etc).