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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Zeta is unstable beyond belief on my machine. Somehow, the updated zlib from one of the SP's (SP2 I think had it) managed to prevent my system booting. To this day I've no idea what in the boot process relies on zlib (other than the very start of the bootloader, which has it built it and was well past, I was at sysinit22 or so).
Their USB2 stack KDL's me. It KDL's a lot of people, it seems. Their USB mass storage drivers don't support my digital camera. They did something to the media kit that burns my ears out with noise on each bootup (EMU10K card).
I can actually use a horrible messy hybrid of R5 Pro, BONE, bits of Haiku, small bits of Dano and drivers from Haiku and others. My system boots reliably, my digital camera works, my ears don't get eaten by the media kit. I can't use Zeta. I'm more than willing to wait for Haiku R1 (and hopefully help it somewhat along the way) for as long as it takes. Zeta isn't even up to the level of being a stopgap for me.
Oh, and PhOS is even worse than Zeta. app_server lockups abound.