Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Aug 2004 21:07 UTC
Haiku (OpenBeOS)'s third birthday was a few days ago. While some BeOS parts have been successfully re-implemented so far, these were mostly the 'trivial' parts: screensaver kit, printing kit etc. Read more for a mini-editorial.
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>And just because something has more features, does not make it better.
Maybe yes, and maybe not. But by 2007, you better have these extra new features that Longhorn/OSX will have by then, or your OS will be treated as a TOY.
>speed
When my room has nothing in it, it is very tidy indeed.
> code quality
I don't have any reasons to believe that the Haiku developers are better or worse than the MS/Apple/Linux engineers.
>security
BeOS was always the _worst_ OS in security.
> consistancy
Unfortunately, consistency is mostly achieved through very well defined teams of working closely together. OSS projects do not normally show consistency, so I am still not convinced on this one.