Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source

Technical Writing Geek writes "The Haiku project, which began shortly after the death of BeOS in 2001, aims to bring together the technical advantages of BeOS and the freedom of open source. 'The project has drawn dozens of contributors who have written over seven million lines of code. Although Haiku is nearly feature-complete, there are still numerous bugs that must be fixed before it is ready for day-to-day use. The design principles behind Haiku are very closely aligned with those of BeOS. The central goal of the Haiku project is to create an operating system that is ideally suited for use on the desktop--this differs significantly from Linux and other open-source operating systems which are intended for use in a diverse range of settings including server and embedded environments.'"

Haiku

[Anonymous Coward]

An OS should not
Be shaped by greed and money
Open source the world

Re:Links

[Fred_A]

A direct link in the summery would have been nice

Maybe it's still wintery in the submitter's hemisphere ?

Greed and money

[smittyoneeach]

Greed and money,
Like a thicket of beard,
Obscure good and sunny:
Let all things be sheared.
Burma Shave

What was the point of BeOS/Haiku?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, so its "designed for the desktop", and apparently really good at multimedia or something? I've never understood exactly what this stuff means. Multimedia works just great on my Windows XP machine. Could someone explain to me in a not too technical way, just why BeOs was significant?

Re:Feature-complete

[Anonymous Coward]

So it's closer to being ready for release than KDE4?

In KDE release terms, it's version 5.4, and ready for production use.

Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source

[thewiz]

Great... Just what I need, more zombied processes.

Re:Greed and money

[ehrichweiss]

Haiku is easy But sometimes they don't make sense Refrigerator

Foiled by the submit button?

[smittyoneeach]

The submit button
Made your post into a line
Like a fencing foil?

Re:First poem

[JK_the_Slacker]

I'd be using Minix on my laptop right now, if it supported the wireless card.

I see a lot of shortcomings in Minix. It's a toy os, and that doesn't satisfy me. I think I'll make my own. Yeah, that's the ticket.

(With apologies to Linus Torvalds)

Re:Greed and money

[Floritard]

That's not a haiku you western swine.

Re:Haiku

[FarrisGoldstein]

Haiku as a name fits the bill For an OS that's over the hill Pretentious, contrived And kept barely alive By nerds with no witty rhyme skill

Whippersnappers

[BenEnglishAtHome]

I wonder how many of our youthful readers are staring at your post, muttering "WTF?"

Poor kids...

Re:Greed and money

[mingrassia]

>> Haiku is easy
>> But sometimes they don't make sense
>> Refrigerator

Seen that one before
I bought the shirt on Threadless
Click the URL

http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_are_easy_but [threadless.com]

Re:First poem

[beav007]

Less support than Unix, no wireless - lame.