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| Developer interview: how Haiku is building a better BeOS |
| By special contributor rohan_p on 2012-08-08 15:21:35 |
| BeOS may be dead, but over a decade after its lamentable demise the open source Haiku project keeps its legacy alive. Haiku is an attempt to build a drop-in, binary compatible replacement for BeOS, as well as extending the defunct OS's functionality and support for modern hardware. At least, that's the short-term goal - eventually, Haiku is intended significantly enhance BeOS while maintaining the same philosophy of simplicity and transparency, and without being weighed down with the legacy code of many other contemporary operating systems. Computerworld Australia recently caught up with Stephan Assmus, who has been a key contributor to the project for seven years for a lengthy chat about BeOS, the current state of Haiku and the project's future plans. |
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| Its Aßmus not Assmus! |
| By adkilla on 2012-08-08 15:53:58 |
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Modern OSes are able to display Aßmus just fine. Please correct it! Gracias. |
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| RE: Its A�mus not Assmus! |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-08 16:02:39 |
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Ringel-s may also be written as a double-s (I speak German, you know ;) ). Since OSNews has issues with weird characters, I have to do it like this. Edited 2012-08-08 16:04 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Its A��mus not Assmus! |
| By smashIt on 2012-08-08 16:13:30 |
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> Ringel-s may also be written as a double-s (I speak German, you know ;) ). actually it's sz, but everyone uses ss (including me) nonetheless it's a useless character and should have been abolished many decades ago... |
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| RE: Its A�mus not Assmus! |
| By moondevil on 2012-08-08 16:36:14 |
| Except OSNews headlines :( |
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| RE[3]: Its AÃ��ïÂÂ&i |
| By moondevil on 2012-08-08 16:36:56 |
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> actually it's sz, but everyone uses ss (including me) nonetheless it's a useless character and should have been abolished many decades ago... Unless you happen to live in Switzerland... |
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| Haiku and Linux |
| By CapEnt on 2012-08-08 16:53:57 |
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It's quite appalling to think about it, but Haiku, as incomplete and visually aged as it is today, still manages to be a better desktop OS than any Linux distro with a modern DE. It's a shame that it never got serious attention of any large company. |
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| Progeny |
| By fretinator on 2012-08-08 17:12:22 |
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Be, so sleek, sublime Threads ev'rywhere, by design Come alive Haiku |
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| RE: Haiku and Linux |
| By v_bobok on 2012-08-08 17:24:22 |
| I can understand 'incomplete', but 'visually aged'? There's Linux DEs and window managers even more minimalistic, but no one calls them 'old' or 'aged'. It's just classic kind of style, bro. |
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| If only |
| By quackalist on 2012-08-08 18:14:42 |
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If only BeOS had succeed and if only Haiku wasn't so slow developing when it didn't. Of all the OS's I've had anything to do with BeOS was the one & only OS that just seemed right, the real deal. Sadly...if only. |
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| RE: Haiku and Linux |
| By Phucked on 2012-08-08 18:28:08 |
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> It's quite appalling to think about it, but Haiku, as incomplete and visually aged as it is today, still manages to be a better desktop OS than any Linux distro with a modern DE. It's a shame that it never got serious attention of any large company. Maybe back in 1999 that was the case, but now I would take a Fluxbox desktop over a BeOS/ Haiku one any day of the week. The BeOS/Haiku widget set and interface are more cartoonish than Windows XP, and feel more like a mock up than a real UI for a so called media OS. |
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