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After 8 Years of Work, Be-Alike Haiku Releases Official Alpha
NiteMair writes "The Haiku project has finally released an official R1 alpha, after 8 years of development. This marks a significant milestone for the project, and it also debuts the first official/publicly available LiveCD ISO image that can be easily booted and used to install Haiku on x86 hardware. Haiku is a desktop operating system inspired by BeOS after Be, Inc. closed its doors in 2001. The project has remained true to the BeOS philosophy while integrating modern hardware support and features along the way." Eugenia adds this link to an article describing the history of the OS, along with a review of the alpha version."
Haiku is not Free Software. On the off chance it becomes wildly successful they can close it up and go commercial. IIRC the license is something more like BSD or MIT, but certainly not GPL.
On a 400MHz Pentium II PC, BeOS was capable of running 10 MP3s and 10 videos simultaneously (maybe even more), without lag or stutter.
You forget that those videos were 160x120 and encoded in Indeo 5. The rest of your comment is similarly rose tinted bullshit.
The best thing for BeOS would be if all its fans perished. Ideally in a suicide attack on OSNews.