OSNews > Thread > "BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe" by mikesum32

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Feb 2007 22:25 UTC

Cosmoe is back. "Well, I couldn't stay away. My lengthy hiatus away from working on Cosmoe is now over, and I am back in full force! For those of you not familiar with Cosmoe, it is a BeOS API (or Haiku API, if you will) environment running on Linux." There's even a screenshot.

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BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe

by mikesum32 on Thu 8th Feb 2007 05:36 UTC

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2005-10-22

As far as I understand it, BlueEyedOS came about mostly because the folks in charge didn't like the technical and licensing decisions that Haiku made.

Cosmoe is a different story. Bill is using the Linux kernel but Haiku's app server and other pieces. He contributed a good amount of fixes back to Haiku. I suspect that he will have to report his changes to both the Haiku (if he wants) and Linux kernels, making it a bigger and bigger job as time goes on.

That's the way it was told to me by Big Red himself.

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RE: BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe

by umccullough on Thu 8th Feb 2007 05:59 in reply to "BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe"

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2006-01-26

I suspect that he will have to report his changes to both the Haiku (if he wants) and Linux kernels, making it a bigger and bigger job as time goes on.

All he has to do is make any Linux-based code available if anyone wants it. Why is that so hard?

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RE[2]: BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe

by spikeb on Thu 8th Feb 2007 11:10 in reply to "RE: BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe"

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2006-01-18

It's not. What the parent was talking about was working with the kernel team and the haiku team and sending his fixes and editing them if need be, etc. Being a _good_ developer is a lot of work. and completely worth it

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RE: BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe

by Jack Burton on Thu 8th Feb 2007 08:57 in reply to "BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe"

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2005-07-06

"As far as I understand it, BlueEyedOS came about mostly because the folks in charge didn't like the technical and licensing decisions that Haiku made."

Actually BlueEyedOS started before Haiku, so...

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RE[2]: BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe

by mikesum32 on Thu 8th Feb 2007 10:16 in reply to "RE: BlueEyedOS and Cosmoe"

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2005-10-22

Not to argue without reason, but started has many different meanings.

07/01/2001: The BlueOS project is born.
08/05/2001: FAQ has been updated
08/22/2001: mailing list opened and member section updated

You opened your mailing list on August 22, 2001

Okay, but now look at this.

[openbeos] Ok, let's start

* From: "Marcus Overhagen" <dos4gw@xxxxxx>
* To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
* Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:47:33 -0700

OpenBeOS opened their mailing list on the exact same day !

It seems to me you started at the same time.

Edited 2007-02-08 10:24

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