Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 03:03:10 CST 2013
Hello Hans-Christian, I can see that you had some affection for BeOS, thanks for a nice email, On 28 January 2013 09:50, Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>wrote: > Hi Mark, > > No, Haiku is meant to be binary compatible with BeOS, so it does not run > Linux binaries from the outset (but it is entirely possible, of course). > > Haiku is not a new OS. It has been around for a while actually. It's been > around since the early 2000's. The history behind BeOS was that it was a > new operating system that was designed to be heavily multi-core and > multi-tasking (remember back in those days when the Pentium Pro machines > were actually capable of multiple processors?). The company, Be Inc., was > trying to compete in a heavily Windows dominated market and they were > selling machines called BeBox's. > > Unfortunately, no one was interested in buying anything that wasn't > Microsoft at the time, so BeOS never had any traction in the industry, > despite being vastly superior (in every way conceivable) to Microsoft > Windows. > > When Apple was failing to produce an update to their operating system, Mac > OS 9, BeOS was one of the two options Apple was considering as being the > next update to Apple OS. Unfortunately for Be Inc., Steve Jobs had returned > to Apple and was pushing for NeXT, since this was his project prior to > (re)joining Apple. > > Apple decided to go with NeXT. BeOS's last ditch effort to stay alive > among the sharks (Microsoft) failed and the company folded in 2001. > > It's a shame. BeOS was an amazing operating system. It was far ahead of > everything out there from a technology point of view and it ran circles > around every other OS in terms of performance and stability at the time. > > Palm then acquired Be Inc and did bugger all with it (as usual), so the > Haiku team took it upon themselves to rewrite BeOS and they called it > Haiku. It's been in alpha forever because it is enough of a forgotten OS > that few people care, but enough care to spend time working on it with a > passion. > > Unfortunately, Haiku can only claim to be BeOS compatible. They had to > rewrite everything, so it isn't really the same OS underneath, but they've > done an excellent job considering! > > R.I.P. BeOS. > > - Hans > > > On 2013-01-28, at 1:15 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello Jim > > > > Do you think that Linux apps will install and run on Haiku? If not, does > > it have future at all? > > > > I do admire the vision of anyone that attempts to start a new OS. > > > > > > > > On 28 January 2013 07:10, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > >> So here is something interesting...another OSS and it is not Linux > >> > >> It is called Haiku. Whether the OS, based on BeOS, will make it past the > >> development stage is a question as they are still trying to put enough > >> funds > >> together to make the dream a reality. > >> > >> Below is their site: > >> https://www.haiku-os.org/ > >> > >> Here is a Wikipedia oversight: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) > >> > >> And a link to many images of the various product screens: > >> > >> > http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=hp&cp=8&gs_id= > >> > >> > 4&xhr=t&q=Haiku+OS&biw=1174&bih=649&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&um=1&ie=UTF- > >> 8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=bSIGUaPJNpCUigLw7oHoDg > >> > >> And finally a article from a recent product convert: > >> http://blog.leahhanson.us/falling-for-haiku-os.html > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dba-Tech mailing list > >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >