Star Three Years of Haiku: The Long Road to Evolution
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Aug 2004 21:07 UTC
BeOS & Derivatives 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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On skyOS, Mac OS X and Zeta.
by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Aug 2004 22:47 UTC

I didn't "join" the skyOS community for nothing. Seeing the future of BeOS darkening by the day, I needed something that resembled it. Not specifically in looks, but in speed, responiveness, UI behaviour. SkyOS is what comes closest to it, in my opinion.

I, however, don't agree with what many say that Mac OS X comes close to BeOS. I've been using my iMac on a daily basis now for over two weeks, but no, it didn't remind me of BeOS. The only thing that did was the double-click-titlebar-to-minimize option.

Also, I question whether Zeta is really as unstable as people tend to say. But, seeing my computer runs practically every x86 OS without any problems, it might just be me.