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 think Haiku will succeed, and is indeed already a success. A lot of people are interested and they are making steady, if perhaps slow, progress. Linux moved slowly for the first three years, too. I think Haiku is a very important project because it promises to be a totally graphical open source system w/ a BSD-style (I think, sorry if I'm wrong) license. Configuration on Linux can still be tough for some people. Hell, I've spent the past two weeks trying to figure out why my Radeon 9800 Pro doesn't like my nforce2 under Linux (It mostly works now, but crashes at shutdown). I think in the future Haiku will provide an alternative to Linux, that is cleaner and easier to use.
I don't want to use a closed source operating system in the future, and I think Haiku is my best bet. For now, I'm more than content with OS X, but I can still be considered as waiting for Haiku because it is morally pleasing to me. It is very likely that I would start contributing to it if I could download an ISO and start coding, I'm mainly waiting for that day, and I think if I wait long enough it will come.