Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Nov 2006 12:50 UTC, submitted by judgen
Gnash (open source implementation of Flash) is now working on Haiku. "I've been busy porting the latest Gnash 0.7.2 release to BeOS this weekend. I did start this port as the other version that was apparently ported earlier this year never had a public release. I've achieved a full port that is using the AGG rendering backend and a native BeOS GUI. I also wrote a Firefox plugin based on my SVG plugin. The native BeOS audio handler is yet incomplete, which is the reason why I didn't release anything yet."
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2006-03-22
But from a kernel point of view, frankly I doubt that Haiku/NewOS will ever be as good as Linux is, now this is not necessarily a problem, after all MacOS X is built on top of Mach which isn't exactly the best kernel in the world, but there is a big difference: Apple has enough money to "make work" an antique microkernel but Haiku developpers don't have that much manpower..
. But those are subjective opinions. So we better use some facts. One of facts is that Linux ABI changes all the time and binary compatibility between versions is close to non-existing.
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Well.. I don't think Linux kernel is "best thing in a world" and i think there can be something better done
Haiku developers want to keep binary compatibility at least for Haiku R1 (but i suspect that even if some huge changes happen, there will be a way to EASLY run old apps anyway).
There are also many other reasons why Linux kernel was not used (like: license, modularity, clean & readable code...). It was already disscussed many times, and i don't think bringing the same old "but why not Linux?" each time there is some talk about Haiku makes any sense at all.
Except that UNIX were proprietary and cost big bucks whereas Linux is Free.
BeOS was proprietary, commercial OS which was discontinued whereas Haiku is Free