“Haiku is now in alpha… [and] according to the Haiku web site, has a fully threaded design for use with multiprocessor CPUs, a custom kernel, a rich object oriented API and is aimed specifically at personal computing,” Shanti reports.
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MacDailyNews Note: Haiku’s website states: “Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.” More info here.
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Another Finnish loser
Bless you.
Wow – I don’t remember the BeOS desktop looking so…old.
It’s not OSX, it’s not windows, it’s not linux, heck it’s not even android or chrome OS.
It’s something new and different and I hope it succeeds.
they need a better art director for the UI
Welcome back to 1997, man the GUI looks very dated.
@ Olternaut
The BeOS was developed in 1991.
My BeOS discs are over 10 years old.
While BeOS is certainly different, it’s hardly new.
Interesting – it has an OS 9-y look. It might be good for netbooks.
Boy is Haiku ugly
Why do I get a distinct feeling of the “Start” button from that feather icon navigation thingy?
You say it’s developed for PCs? What else would it be for, mainframes?
I used to make OS 9 look like Be, and neXt as well.
Emerging, a familiar OS
’twas not as blase,
As our dear friend Jean-Louis Gassée
By serious coders, FOR serious coders. I can see why the uber-geeks are feeling warm-fuzzies over this. Can’t see why I should care. Back when OSX was mint-fresh I was pleased that Apple had hidden a sh-window under the pretty surface, and even more so when bash became the default … now I’m retired and don’t go there for any reason at all. Too much like <gasp>!WERK!</gasp> and not enough like “accomplishing” for me. That, and much of the tools I originally wanted a shell script option for are now available at low cost from Apple.
BeOS was Apple’s other consideration to replace the classic Mac OS. The “owner” of it asked too much money so they went with OpenStep instead (formerly NeXT step). The problem with BeOS is that it makes it excruciatingly difficult to write software that utilizes more than one CPU or core. BUT, it was more than a decade ahead of its time – easily!
Read Jon Siracusa’s review of Snow Leopard in Ars Technica (a highly recommended read anyway). He covers BeOS when talking about Grand Central Dispatch.
I don’t see the point of Haiku. The setup is intimidating to non-geeks.
I’m not saying it’s a bad OS, because I can’t know that, but I’d love to know its reason to live. What does it do that other OSs don’t? What problem does it solve? What does it improve? What does it make easier? What does it make possible?
Obviously, I’m curious, or there wouldn’t be all these question marks, but aside from curiosity, why would I want to install it?
@ balanced
i dated a GUI once.
Can somebody tell these guys it’s not 1997 anymore? These dialogs and icons aren’t going to impress anyone in 2009.
nice half-assed job blurring the email addresses on one of those screenshots in the slideshow. I can read every one of them with no effort at all.
BeOS rises again.
Its name is Haiku.
But will anyone use it?
this isn’t BeOS – its a complete clone of it – a complete re-write – there was like a 60 minute video presentation on google video and youtube last year when the development team fist showed it running – this is the public launch, but it has been up and running for over a year now.
Had a look at Haiku tour( I remember BeOS). It’s too OS9 looking, which is good but kind of old.
Just remember, folks,
haiku is five, seven, five
syllables per line.
Haiku, inspired by Vista’s falure.
hobbyist OS’s rock. may they never stop coming! their innovations sometimes spread, so don’t wish them ill.