Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Feb 2012 13:50 UTC, submitted by Ducky Johnson
Now this is what I like to see. Smaller, alternative operating systems have been dying by the dozens these past 6 years or so, so in order for the remainder to survive, they need to work together. ReactOS and Haiku have been doing that for a while now, and the latest fruits of this collaboration is a much-improved USB stack for ReactOS.
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RE[2]: Comment by Gone fishing
by umccullough on Tue 21st Feb 2012 16:45
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Bravo and I am expecting to see other collaborations like AROS/osFree/Puredarwin/Plan9 (and derivatives)/Minix/Genode/Hurd/Syllable/ReactOs/Haiku.
I'm not sure what they ended up doing in the end, but I know that AROS was curious about Haiku's work on the WLAN (Wifi) stuff. I remember speaking with someone from AROS last year at SCALE - he was interested in Haiku's stack. I'm not sure what strategy they ultimately went with, however.
Since Haiku copied most of the WLAN stack code (as well as other netcard drivers) from FreeBSD, perhaps that's where they ended up going as well.
This is how FOSS is supposed to work
RE[2]: Comment by Gone fishing
by laffer1 on Tue 21st Feb 2012 18:38
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If only smaller OSes could collaborate more we would have even more high quality alternatives.
Bravo and I am expecting to see other collaborations like AROS/osFree/Puredarwin/Plan9 (and derivatives)/Minix/Genode/Hurd/Syllable/ReactOs/Haiku.
We need more collaboration, more alternatives in order to finish with proprietary solutions.
Edited 2012-02-21 16:06 UTC