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One thing that's fun about this is that BeOS isn't going anywhere. If you decided to do this for, say, Windows, Microsoft is going to release a new Windows ver
by tialaramex 1y ago
One thing that's fun about this is that BeOS isn't going anywhere.
If you decided to do this for, say, Windows, Microsoft is going to release a new Windows version with new stuff you can't do and too bad.
But BeOS itself is dead, and the Haiku project (to basically make BeOS again, once named "OpenBeOS") is about a quarter of a century old yet seems barely closer to releasing anything. A lethargic snail could sleep walk to the finish before Haiku ships version 2.
- chrsw 1y agoThat's a shame because the the Haiku code base is relatively easy to get into. It's not overly complicated, it's consistent, it doesn't have layers of different styles from different eras and origins, and so on. It's C++ but it doesn't use last C++ feature to show off how clever you can be. At least, I'm pretty sure that's still the case because it's been years since I looked at it. I remember being surprised about how easy it was to form a metal model of the design and a model of the design-behavior interaction.
- calvinmorrison 1y agoHaiku is pretty conservative with their versioning. You can definitely daily drive it.
- tmountain 1y agoBeOS is the Latin of operating systems. LOL
- i80and 1y agoHaiku is in genuinely good shape. I contributed some code to it years and years ago and even back then it ran nicely even on bare metal. About the only thing I think you miss out on is GPU acceleration and maybe wifi? I haven't kept up with the current state.
- dleslie 1y agoWifi is as good as FreeBSD, because they share drivers. But yes, graphics drivers are a problem.
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