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BeOS had some extremely interesting concepts, and I'd love to see Haiku gain some traction. I'm not sure whether or not to call it Unix-based, though. It certa
by Millennium 14y ago
BeOS had some extremely interesting concepts, and I'd love to see Haiku gain some traction.
I'm not sure whether or not to call it Unix-based, though. It certainly isn't based on any known Unix code-wise: it's not even written in C. But it does retain a Unix-like command line, and you can even get much of the GNU toolset for it.
- gecko 14y agoHaiku also, far more than BeOS ever did, follows POSIX. Porting Unix applications to Haiku is actually fairly easy these days.
- pjmlp 14y agoPOSIX UNIX applications == CLI, not much more.
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- ZenoArrow 14y ago"I'm not sure whether or not to call it Unix-based" Quoting the first comment..."something not Unix-based".
- ZenoArrow 14y agoWhy was my previous comment modded down? Haiku is no more Unix-based than Windows, i.e. they both have support for POSIX, but that's about it. BeOS was designed to leave behind the cruft from older systems, not build upon it.
- cturner 14y ago> it's not even written in C It was. The internals were entirely written in C. C++ was for application developers.