BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

[Ian Malone]

On 7 May 2012 16:38, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a
>>> shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time.
>>

>> I was mostly a OS/2 Warp 4.x zealot by then,but yes, I got to play with BeOS
>> (4.5 if I remember correctly).
>>
>> This whole ordeal with the diskette image started when I read about this
>> effort to revive the BeOS spirit...
>>
>> http://www.haiku-os.org
>
> I've known about it for quite some time but it looks like they're
> finally getting to something usable. There was also a project to
> create a BeOS like system on top of the regular linux kernel to take
> advantage of the larger driver base but while practical, I never liked
> that idea because BeOS was always about a micro kernel not a
> monolithic kernel.
>

I first saw Haiku when I went through a few months of being keen on
Windows desktop theming (litestep anyone?) that was a about a decade
ago, rather glad I didn't try holding my breath.

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