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- dalbert00, on 02/12/2008, -9/+68When BeOS died I thought for sure this project would only be for nut jobs who can't deal with loss (my father raised me on OS/2). I'm glad to see it has actually made some headway; it would be great to finally have a desktop-centric OS. I wonder if my BeOS Bible will still be applicable?
Ideally our OS options would coexist in this large market and be more specialized to individual needs.
Windows for lemmings.
Linux for servers and science.
BeOS for desktops.
.... Macs for hippies and children. - cckev529, on 02/12/2008, -2/+43Haikus never rhyme;
But this time, I will in mine.
Take that Japanese. - Chazx, on 02/12/2008, -19/+53Haiku is Linux
I'm being original
Digg me up plz thx - DiggLive, on 02/12/2008, -2/+35You are comical
I'm replying to your post
You win Internets - stargatesteve, on 02/12/2008, -1/+21You are very much wrong,
Haiku is not Linux
It's a clone of Be - bluecube, on 02/12/2008, -1/+20i once knew a guy
who invested in B E
then they went under - motang, on 02/12/2008, -2/+20Been fallowing the Haiku project for some time now, still waiting for a stable beta to come out so that I can test it out. Hopefully soon.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -0/+14I tried haiku and really liked it, i ran the nightly builds in vmware. I always thought BeOS was a good OS, it was great for media at the time. I would love to see it have the same following as ubuntu , and more development.
- thoffman, on 02/12/2008, -2/+16Just as competition in the browser space has encouraged innovation, the availability of alternatives to Windows should do the same.
- GMorgan, on 02/12/2008, -0/+12The multi threaded UI was something that I really liked. X11 still runs in one big sucky thread.
- computershack, on 02/12/2008, -0/+12I love what they say about Linux - absolutely spot on.
"Linux-based distributions are a collection of numerous software that do not necessarily follow the same development guidelines and/or goals. This lack of overall vision often results in increased complexity, insufficient integration, and sometimes inefficient solutions, making the use of your computer more complicated than it should actually be." - bundwallah, on 02/12/2008, -1/+13Really looking forward to a stable release. I loved BeOS back in the day.
- wolfger, on 02/12/2008, -3/+14@motang: Why wait for "a stable beta" to test it? Testers are needed more *before* a project becomes stable! I'll be looking into installing this on my test partition this weekend...
- borez, on 02/12/2008, -0/+11Wow BeOS now that's a blast from the past
- staple, on 02/12/2008, -0/+11there is a lot modern operating systems could learn from BeOS. It was years ahead of its time (true microkernel, journaled filesystem, impressive support for media). I hope Haiku gives Windows, Mac, and Linux a run for their money.
- noverflow, on 02/12/2008, -0/+11Awesome. I ran the Betas of BeOS all the way up to r4 off my zip drive in my PPC mac clone (power computing).
I Loved that os. It was so much faster than anything at the time by leaps and bounds, even booting off a damn zip drive! - inactive, on 02/12/2008, -0/+10http://www.haiku-os.org/
- DiggLive, on 02/12/2008, -1/+11That haiku is great
You have great comedic fate
Have a slice of cake - technoredneck, on 02/12/2008, -0/+8I remember BeOS. I was quite fond of it back in the day. It was lightning fast and booted in about ten seconds, even R5 on a Pentium 166. My only complaint about it was the lack of multiuser support. It didn't have a whole lot of software, either, but that's not really the OS's fault itself. It'd be awesome of Haiku could take over the little nitch BeOS had. Competition and choice are always good things.
- technoredneck, on 02/12/2008, -2/+10Macs with bootcamp. ;p
- fani, on 02/12/2008, -1/+9AWESOME !! Now this is what I read digg for. To get such information that rekindles those nostalgic memories.
I bought BeOS 5 R1 I think and I was so impressed with it. Pity it stopped development.
At least, I'm not fully sure, but I think parts of it went into MacOSX (?) - bobartig, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7Apple was supposedly in talks with Be to purchase up their IP after several failed attempts at developing a next generation Mac OS. At the last minute, Stevo convinced Apple to purchase/integrate NextStep instead as the foundation for Mac OS X.
- stevensj2, on 02/12/2008, -0/+7I used BeOS for kicks back in the day, and I did like its responsiveness.
But if it is going to be targetted to the Desktop user, there should be a focus on desktop apps: word processing, spreadsheets, simple photo editing and organizing, music player, etc. I saw none of these in the previews.
I think what a lot of developers overlook is that a desktop OS not only has to be responsive and stable, it also has to have apps that make it worthwhile to the user. - halleyscomet, on 02/12/2008, -1/+7WOW. You just gave me a flash back to 90% of the comments in Linux related conversations from the late 90's.
- rspeed, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6The very last nightly build of BeOS had an "Aqua" theme included. Maybe that'll work with Haiku!
- prosayik, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6I'm certain that will come with time. Gradients, gloss, sparkles. Who knows, maybe a pony or two.
I'm curious if they will keep the BeOS cheeseblocks-- the yellow tab window decor you can move with the alt key and other functions of the UI. - khyberkitsune, on 02/13/2008, -0/+5Did they ever address BeOS R5's inherent 1GB of Ram limitation?
- Relentl3ss, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5BeOs was just simply beautiful on my old tecra 8000, very tempted to get Haiku just to see if it is as nice.
- Ramble, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5I've run this in a virtual machine a few times, and it would be a fantastic OS if you just want to work. Very fast and very work-centric. Does what you want without getting in your way.
- gsnedders, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5Steve Jobs returned to Apple _when_ NeXT was bought. Apple was in talks with both Be and NeXT: in the end, Steve Jobs managed to sell NeXT to Apple, leaving Be with nowhere to go.
- DiggLive, on 02/12/2008, -1/+6Your poem needs to bail
Too many syllables and
You are epic fail - sotloo, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5Hmmm i thought BeOS was dead...I remember standing in the BeOS booth years ago at the Moscone Center looking on in awe at the power this OS. It was quite advanced for it’s time. It’s ability to manipulate live video was phenomenal.
- Culyt, on 02/13/2008, -0/+5Your reply differs
from haiku format, lamer
so you get dugg down - halleyscomet, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5BeOS was originally intended to be the successor to the old Mac OS. That's why it ran on Power PC chips even before it ran on Intel boxes. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he had NEXT made the core of the new Mac OS. This killed the main corporate customer Be had been hoping for. Palm eventually bought it intending to make it the core of the Palm OS replacement, but that never went anywhere.
- mancat, on 02/12/2008, -0/+5I've always wondered where Apple would be if they had chosen to purchase BeOS rather than overhaul NeXTStep as OS X. I believe they were looking to move to BeOS on PPC Macs some time around the development of OS 9.
- Super6, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4How would this compare with say, Linux Mint, which is very "desktop-oriented" in my view? What exactly is "desktop-oriented?"
- adamuffa, on 02/12/2008, -1/+5What about gaming hippies? What generalization do you have for them?
- chromerium, on 02/12/2008, -0/+4Except, you know, there are only a few applications for it. ;)
- mahdaeng, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3My only exposure to BeOS was back in 1999. I watched a demonstration of it and was very impressed by how well it managed memory. I would be happy to try out Haiku as soon as it's stable enough.
- vornan19, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Yeah! I've been checking them out for a while too. I still have an ISO of BeOSR5 but my floppy drive has crapped out and I cannot make the startup disk :-(
- Gryffydd, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3Until you get *click* *click* *click*
- halleyscomet, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3How much do you need to work? Gvim, a good FTP client, a good file manager, Firefox and a PDF viewer and you're good to go for a LOT of development, assuming of course you have a server to which you're uploading test code.
- bitbytebit, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3You are made of fail
five, seven, five you dumb male
grade school too hard? HAIL! - Tiles, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4Why don't you try the operating system and find out? The programmers clearly thought BeOS had enough advantages that they'd spend six years trying to recreate it, rather than settle for Linux or Windows. It might not be good enough for you, but it sounds like they had enough motivation.
By making an open source version of BeOS, it has the potential of taking off like BeOS never could. Not to mention, after reading this article, I'm now really tempted to try Haiku. They probably won't corner a huge share of the market, but you could've said that about Linux ten years ago too. - BrandonMills, on 02/13/2008, -0/+3I liked OS/2, but I had to ditch them at Warp :{ Too many applications required 95 by that point.
- localzuk, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4You are missing something there. Hobbiest projects can and do offer innovation. There are many little projects that have aided larger, more popular projects. Linux the kernel, for example, started as a hobby...
- InferiorWang, on 02/13/2008, -1/+46, 6, 5? That's not a haiku!
- kavaliro, on 02/12/2008, -0/+3I used BeOS nearly exclusively for a while, but when I installed R5 it bricked my laptop and that was the end of that. I still miss it, though. Such a clean, easy-to-use interface. It was WAY ahead of it's time. It was revolutionary. BeOS could have been a contender, and probably still would be, if only it had been open sourced back in the day.
Having said that, the future is with Compiz-like interfaces. Any OS whose desktop isn't taking advantage of 3D graphics cards' capabilities has it's days numbered, and it's a low number. - stargatesteve, on 02/12/2008, -1/+3"Same following as Ubuntu"
great. so now digg will be filled up with "OMG BeOS SPINNING CUBE!!!!!1one LOLz" - DrDabbles, on 02/13/2008, -0/+2They, and unicorns, are not real. Simply mythical creatures.
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