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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I remember when OpenBeOS said they'd be able to do it in a year.
The thing is that it's starting not to matter. Mac OS X has done away with a lot of its speed demons and their Quartz display engine is well ahead of everyone else. Longhorn is going to be a big upgrade that should fix a lot of people's complaints with Windows and will feature a 3rd generation display model as well. Not to mention that OpenBeOS was started before Windows XP came out which was a huge improvement. Linux has seen tons of development over the past three years that has brought it from being a hobby-OS for desktop users to something that can replace Windows. The other big three have come a long way to matching BeOS' strengths.
It's just too late. Linux, the furthest behind for most desktop users, is just way too far ahead. It has the networking, the wi-fi, the hardware support, the applications, and the features than an alternative OS needs to be competitive against the big boys and BeOS R5 doesn't have three years past its death.
I think that Syllable has a chance of moving forward. They keep releasing more stuff and they seem to be active in development. They aren't trying to wedge their system into the place of another so they don't have to worry about breaking past things in that way and they aren't shooting too high thinking that they will be able to take over the world with their product.