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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In 2002 people were saying it would be there in 2004, based off nothing. There was what, a few half finished preferences apps skeletons and a printing kit.
Now, theres a booting-from-HDD kernel, a relatively complete app_server and interface kit, and almost total completion around the rest. DHCP and a media encoder API are missing, as are a few other random pref apps.
Windows XP is no more useful to me than BeOS R5. I use a lot of relatively old hardware; XP is painfully slow on even my fastest BeOS laptop.
Now that Haiku has the non profit status, donations can soon be solicited. Those can be used to (hopefully, if theres enough) pay Axel to work on the kernel at least as if it were a part time job. Once the kernel is somewhat more complete, the app_server will be launchable. There, basically, is an RC1. The total binary and driver compatibility is whats going to take by far the longest time. *That* might not be there until 2008, yes. But launching the OS and being able to run a majority of BeOS applications, and actually *use* them, thats should be possible by 2006, *at the latest*