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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what is the point to cloning an OS:
1) to maintain API compatability
2) to reproduce the core system's technological virtues
3) to immitate the user experience, meaning the GUI
In BeOS's case, issue #1 is nearly redundant. What applications there are for BeOS are often open source. It'd be far less effort to port the whole lot of them than to rewrite the OS from scratch.
Issue #2 holds far more merit, but this has effectively already been done in the form of the AtheOS kernel. Rewriting another new kernel from scratch is therefore nothing more than a computer science experiment or a mamoth time waster at worst.
Issue #3 Doesn't need a whole new OS, that can be tacked on to any free software system, such as Syllable.