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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Haiku has a future.
Not if it's too out of date for anyone other than the small handful of remaining BeOS users to be interested in it. It won't have a future without real apps, etc., which is and always has been BeOS's main problem. It has no future if you cannot practically get your work done with it, regardless of whether it's dependent on financial backing or not. Haiku will not have a component architecture, it will not have 3d accelerated graphics, vector UI, or any one of a number of other features every other OS will long since have by the time it's complete. Not unless they scrap their goal of making an R5 clone and start designing something new, and attract a hell of a lot more devs than they have now.