HaikuOS is about to release an alpha
August 17, 20091 comments
It's been a long time in coming, but HaikuOS is now finally sufficiently feature complete and stable to release a full system-wide alpha. There are kinks that they have to work out before it is released on September 9th, but it's finally coming.
Why should anyone care about the open source clone of BeOS, an operating system that died off in 2001? For starters, it is faster and more responsive than most desktop operating systems that have ever been created. The architecture was also designed to be heavily multi-threaded which makes it even more relevant today in an age where processor performance is increasingly achieved through adding more cores to a CPU. Lastly, if a stable 1.0 release is ready by the end of 2010, it would be the perfect OS for netbooks because it provides a Mac-like GUI, but with a tiny memory footprint.
Keep an eye on this project. It very well may become the most significant open source OS on the desktop in the next two years.
Why should anyone care about the open source clone of BeOS, an operating system that died off in 2001? For starters, it is faster and more responsive than most desktop operating systems that have ever been created. The architecture was also designed to be heavily multi-threaded which makes it even more relevant today in an age where processor performance is increasingly achieved through adding more cores to a CPU. Lastly, if a stable 1.0 release is ready by the end of 2010, it would be the perfect OS for netbooks because it provides a Mac-like GUI, but with a tiny memory footprint.
Keep an eye on this project. It very well may become the most significant open source OS on the desktop in the next two years.
Categories: haikuos ,
open source
Oh jeeze, I remember wanting to buy a Be computer... Boy, those were the days!