Yes, I’ve been watching them and running their builds for… fifteen to twenty years now. It’s gone from an effort to reimplement a fairly prescient OS to basically an exercise in software archeology, since even achieving the project’s goals of a fully compatible reinplentation will be so severely limited compared to modern-day OSes it won’t be in any way ‘competitive’ with what is broadly available now, for free (free Linux tanks now have railguns as artillery, antigravity regulators instead of tracks, are built out of magical titanium foam alloys that can protect better while weighing less… you get the point). They have all the sci-fi tech of the erstwhile Batmobile and are on the lot with the keys in the ignition and a sign that reads “take me”.

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coolcoder613 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Well at this point the BeOS (binary) compatibility is incidental. It is it's own system, and daily drivable for a great number of people. (admittedly not for gamers, but there are working nvidia drivers (not public (yet))), Firefox and derivatives have been ported, as well as most of the big name foss apps (libreoffice, etc) have been ported.

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qubex 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah Haiku is its “own thing”… but only up to a point. After all you’re the one mentioning it on a thread ostensibly about BeOS.

	▲	coolcoder613 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. The influences are prominent, but it is BeOS modernised, not BeOS reimplemented. It's hardware requirements are little, even overlapping with BeOS on the low end. I have personally run Haiku beta5 on a 666Mhz Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM (normally, I run BeOS on that machine, with 512MB of RAM). I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, besides a general call to give Haiku a try on that old thinkpad, in a VM[0], or anywhere else really. [1] If you're using virtualbox don't give it more than 1 cpu, virtualbox has a bug which makes haiku slow with multiple CPUs.

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sharts a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This seema like something AI could potentially be useful for.

	▲	Fnoord a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not sure BeOS source was ever released (YellowTab never had the source code IIRC), but several Windows versions were leaked. I wonder if LLMs picked those up, therefore being poisoned, as well as the legal result (is it clearroom enough?) Who owns the rights to BeOS these days? IIRC it was acquired by Palm, then LG (WebOS).
	▲	qubex 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hard pass on that; I’m much happier with software written by fallible humans with a mind than word salad devices.