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Since the others didn't answer in as much detail, leaving readers to possibly wonder, I'll provide a little clarification:
The new Haiku stack is closer to BONE, yes, and is intended to be at least as powerful, but it will have a userspace interface for backwards compatibility with Netserver, but unlike NetServer, and like BONE, it will exist entirely in kernel space.
Other relevant details have been covered sufficiently by other posters before I saw your post, but I can add one minor addition/clarification to a statement made below: the Haiku stack isn't based off any other stack as discussed on the discussion lists, because the locking model of Haiku is too different to the point where it would likely be as hard to replicate a BSD-like stack without employing a BKL (Big Kernel Lock) or otherwise compromising the kernel for SMP support and scalability.




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It keeps getting better and better :-)
Can someone tell me if it's more like Netserver or more like BONE? I mean, Haiku will be R5 compatible, so the this new networking stack must be Netserver compatible.
Since Netserver kind of sucks, Be created BONE. Will this new netstack be something like BONE (Unix-like) with a netserver compatible API?
Or is Haiku R1 only BONE compatible?