Comments on: BeOS is reborn as the open source Haiku Operating System http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/19/beos-is-reborn-as-the-open-source-haiku-operating-system/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:29:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: patara http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/19/beos-is-reborn-as-the-open-source-haiku-operating-system/#comment-151384 patara Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:42:19 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1100#comment-151384 Good that fans resurrected this OS. I remember I had like 300mhz celeron box at the time and the big news about it was that it was able to play like 9 movies simultaneously while Windows98 was dieing on 2. I gave a shot for the old beos around 2007 but by then the hw support was so bad you couldn't do much with it anymore. I'm just about to dl the haiku vmware image and try it. It was a big mistake from BeOS-es authors not to release it as open source in 95. That was the reason why it failed. Good that fans resurrected this OS. I remember I had like 300mhz celeron box at the time and the big news about it was that it was able to play like 9 movies simultaneously while Windows98 was dieing on 2.

I gave a shot for the old beos around 2007 but by then the hw support was so bad you couldn’t do much with it anymore. I’m just about to dl the haiku vmware image and try it.

It was a big mistake from BeOS-es authors not to release it as open source in 95. That was the reason why it failed.

]]> By: Ed http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/19/beos-is-reborn-as-the-open-source-haiku-operating-system/#comment-97416 Ed Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:41:58 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1100#comment-97416 I ran BeOS on my PowerMac 8500. It came with Metrowerks C++/Java compilers (later Java was dropped). Probably not a lot of Mac users remember that BeOS was the forerunner for the MacOS Classic successor... until NeXT's Steve Jobs recommended against it and, oh, by the way, perhaps Apple should buy NeXT instead. I ran BeOS on my PowerMac 8500. It came with Metrowerks C++/Java compilers (later Java was dropped). Probably not a lot of Mac users remember that BeOS was the forerunner for the MacOS Classic successor… until NeXT’s Steve Jobs recommended against it and, oh, by the way, perhaps Apple should buy NeXT instead.

]]> By: hpux735 http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/19/beos-is-reborn-as-the-open-source-haiku-operating-system/#comment-97320 hpux735 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:31:34 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1100#comment-97320 I couldn't get it to work in Parallels, but I replaced OS X with Haiku on my Dell Mini 9! Works well enough to play with, but no wireless still. I couldn’t get it to work in Parallels, but I replaced OS X with Haiku on my Dell Mini 9!

Works well enough to play with, but no wireless still.

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