Sort of. It's based on the NewOS kernel written by Travis Geiselbrecht ( http://newos.org http://newos.org ) who in turned based many of the concepts on his exp

Sort of. It's based on the NewOS kernel written by Travis Geiselbrecht ( http://newos.org http://newos.org ) who in turned based many of the concepts on his experience as a BeOS kernel engineer. The Haiku project chose the NewOS kernel because it was open and used reasonably similar concepts and goals as the BeOS kernel did, which they'd otherwise need to emulate.