http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/ Engadget Comments for Haiku brings back those BeOS glory days http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
And for anyone who wants the best damn metaphorical comparison of OSs back in the day, look no farther than "In the beginning there was command line.

http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine#head-8cd12953799bb75a80f0e450b3ffb9f645282802]]>Feb 12th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/win7_minwin_inside.asp

Mind putting some freakin' effort in?]]>Feb 12th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
Or is this your way of starting a Windows flame war?]]>Feb 12th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 13th 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
This is brilliant if it does and would absolutely burn every modern operating system to the ground, especially now with the advent of multicore processors.]]>Feb 12th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
A hobbyists dream, but a users nightmare...]]>Feb 12th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
It won't become mainstream until Sun, IBM, or Apple picks it up to distribute with their hardware. but it's got a lot of maturitng to do before that would ever become an option.]]>Feb 12th 2008 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
Microsoft have a similar research project, that looks very promising.
It's called 'Singularity' - Google It.

Say what you like about Microsoft, but they do have some good programmers working for them.]]>Feb 12th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
Without big software companies, your OS is as useless as the worlds best video game console without any games...]]>Feb 12th 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
Well, they would have noticed that their website was down provided Firefox wasn't busy crashing in their OS.

Maybe we'll see these as desktops connected to servers running HURD...]]>Feb 12th 2008 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
BeOS was (is) an outstanding desktop OS, and had there been more applications available, there would probably be as many BeOS forums/techsites as there are Linux sites.]]>Feb 12th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
Ahh the good old days.]]>Feb 12th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/I'm on a MacBook and I could either do this through partitioning (bootcamp or sans) or Parallels.
Thanks in advance!]]>Feb 12th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.haiku-os.org/downloads]]>Feb 12th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/It's just not clear to me exactly how I should extract the files in order to install them since there is no apparent iso.]]>Feb 12th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/]]>Feb 12th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
To think I could have been using Cubase, Logic et al on that... ah, what could have been.]]>Feb 12th 2008 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
BeOS was simply the only OS after Amiga which made me excited about the potential for computers, and more importantly, using one.

I could go into features like installing the OS on another partition while using the OS itself, with all personalisation saved. I could talk about trying to bring it to its knees like Windows would, without it breaking a sweat. I could talk about its elegant design, blistering database-like file system along with its power. I could talk about 15 second bootup time which never seemed to really increase. I could talk about ease-of-use and briliant handling of what would be flaws in other OSs.

...but only using can get across just how great it was.

In an ideal world, innovative products that meet real needs would rise to the top and would compete on their own merits. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. Needless to say, Be eventually got a settlement from our anticompetitive friends at Microsoft, but it was all over by then.]]>Feb 12th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
Ah the wonder pointless tech brings a geek like me...]]>Feb 12th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
I'd heard of Haiku; good to see it's at least 'usable' at this point.]]>Feb 12th 2008 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/Feb 12th 2008 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/haiku-brings-back-those-beos-glory-days/
i couldn't get my sound driver working in windows, so i just switched to beos for a year or so


too bad there was no major software for it....


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i couldn't get my sound driver working in windows, so i just switched to beos for a year or so


too bad there was no major software for it....


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Too bad we will never see an OS as BeOS or AmigaOS ever... Can you imagine the pressure Computer manufacturers or even component manufacturer will do if something like this ever see the light of day? Nobody will purchase another PC for the next 5 years or so!


http://www.cucug.org/sr/sr9912.html]]>Feb 13th 2008 12:36PM