How Haiku Is Building a Better BeOS

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 7, 2012 @01:32AM from the 5-7-5-in-the-headline dept.

angry tapir writes "BeOS may be dead, but over a decade after its lamentable demise the open source Haiku project keeps its legacy alive. Haiku is an attempt to build a drop-in, binary compatible replacement for BeOS, as well as extending the defunct OS's functionality and support for modern hardware. At least, that's the short-term goal — eventually, Haiku is intended significantly enhance BeOS while maintaining the same philosophy of simplicity and transparency, and without being weighed down with the legacy code of many other contemporary operating systems. I recently caught up with Stephan Aßmus, who has been a key contributor to the project for seven years to talk about BeOS, the current state of Haiku and the project's future plans."

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Haiku by wonkey_monkey · 2012-08-07 01:34 · Score: 4, Funny

BeOS may be dead
But the only question is
Will I get first post?

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systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
1. Re:Haiku by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-07 01:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  BeOS may be dead
  But the only question is
  Will I get first post?
  You got the first post:
  Many congratulations.
  It makes you feel good?
2. Re:Haiku by cupantae · 2012-08-07 03:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Pronunciation
  changes to accommodate
  those who write po-ems
  
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3. Re:Haiku by sgage · 2012-08-07 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  There once was a man from Lahore
  Whose limericks stopped at line four.
  When asked why this was,
  He said, "just because".
Haiku Not Stolen by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-07 01:47 · Score: 3, Funny

CodeSuite forensic software shows no evidence that Haiku was copied from or was a derivative of BeOS.
Re:How is this 'news'? by royallthefourth · 2012-08-07 02:25 · Score: 4, Funny

But isn't it exciting to think that you could run all your old favorite programs from BeOS such as