Haiku Project

#1

Post by gscott » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 4:56 PM UTC

Haiku Project
haiku-os.org

Re: Haiku Project

#2

Post by buckbova » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

Something new or interesting to report?

Re: Haiku Project

#3

Post by yoshamano » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

buckbova wrote: post #2

Something new or interesting to report?

That's what I was hoping for, but it's not meant to be. The August status update is still the latest blog post, and there still isn't a new Alpha/Beta.

Re: Haiku Project

#4

Post by vhodges » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:29 PM UTC

yoshamano wrote: post #3

buckbova wrote: post #2

Something new or interesting to report?

That's what I was hoping for, but it's not meant to be. The August status update is still the latest blog post, and there still isn't a new Alpha/Beta.

I was just looking this morning (I have an old laptop looking for a new purpose in life) and while there's no definite date, there's 'only' 31 issues left open in the R1/Beta1 milestone at their Trac instance.

Re: Haiku Project

#5

Post by Mizza » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:34 PM UTC

I used BeOS as a kid while playing with different operating systems. All of the windows were yellow colored, and you could irrevocably damage your system if you ever tried to change the color.

Good times.

Re: Haiku Project

#6

Post by adamnemecek » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

BeOS (the OS Haiku is a reimplemntation of) has an interesting history. It was an OS that has a fully async C++ API (very novel for it's time and even now). The fact that it was async made the OS much more responsive and had a better CPU utilization.

BeOS was another company that Apple considered to purchase but they ended up buying NeXT instead. IIRC they ended up going with NeXT because BeOS didn't have networking back then.

Re: Haiku Project

#7

Post by codegeek » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

lets hope it is not a trademark violation

https://www.haikulearning.com/

EDIT: I jumped the gun on this one. Should have done a bit googling first.

Re: Haiku Project

#8

Post by miles » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

I always smile wistfully whenever Haiku/BeOS comes up... its performance and just sheer fun remains unmatched by Windows, OS X, Linux, etc (try it out in a VM).

dr_dank summed it up best back in 2003 [0]:

BeOS was demonstrated to me during my senior year of college. The guy giving the talk played upwards of two dozen mp3s, a dozen or so movie trailers, the GL teapot thing, etc. simultanously. None of the apps skipped a beat. Then, he pulled out the showstopper.

He yanked the plug on the box.

Within 20 seconds or so of restarting, the machine was chugging away with all of its media files in the place they were when they were halted, as if nothing had happened.

Damn.

[0] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66224&cid=6095472

Re: Haiku Project

#9

Post by behnamoh » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

Another piece of good software that got no attention in this industry. Don't even get me started on so many great languages that failed. Pity :/

Re: Haiku Project

#10

Post by chc » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:51 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #7

lets hope it is not a trademark violation https://www.haikulearning.com/ EDIT: I jumped the gun on this one. Should have done a bit googling first.

Haiku predates Haiku Learning by several years. But fortunately trademarks don't generally work that way and lots of companies and products have, for example, the word "Windows" in their name.