http://www.haiku-os.org/

[Robert Sneidar]

As I recall, BeOS ran into that catch 2 all new OSs must face, and that is how to get developers on board to write versions for their OS. Unless they do that, the OS dev must provide titles for the basics like word processing, spreadsheet and graphics, but they titles cannot be so good as to prevent a developer from competing, and there has to be a compelling reason for a developer to invest. It's a hard sell. New OSes fail for pretty much the same reason new political parties fail. Someone else got there first and almost everybody is fully invested in one or the other already. 

CHEESE!

Bob


On Nov 17, 2012, at 1:18 PM, David C. wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>> I have a soft spot for Haiku.
>> 
>> I used to run BeOS R5, then I went to Zeta and now Haiku. I was a member of
>> BUG-Br (Brazilian BeOS User Group), I've met YellowTAB CEO, am friend of a
>> former kernel engineer and been a Google Summer of Code student for the
>> Haiku Project. During the GSoC, I was tasked to create a little network
>> control panel for Haiku. It was not my best creation and I wish I could
>> work more on it. Anyway, check the picture below:
>> 
>> http://fon.nu/8EJF5CL
>> 
>> My name and preflet still there.
>> 
>> =D
> 
> That's awesome, Andre!
> I too really liked BeOS and had great hopes for it... was really
> disappointed when the company went down the tube.
> I've tried Haiku a few times, but not recently... now have the latest
> version downloaded and will take it for another test spin.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, folks!
> 
> Regards,
> DavidC.
> 
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