On 7 May 2012 16:38, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
