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#beos

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Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing

#BeOS. Surely it's won some kind of symbolic war with #Apple. It's almost as if Jean-Paul Gassée knew that the only thing which could possibly trump Steve Jobs's coöption of "the Western canon" and its greatest symbolic treasures was to simplify even further. Be! It's not just an element on the periodic table, it's a command. EXIST! Be incorporated, Be, Incorporated! It's a triumph of marketing and it's saved #HaikuOS, which keeps its small flame burning. It's the most promising escape from the #UNIX mire, in my opinion, a way towards something less hairy and intimidating yet modular and accessible in its range of features.

But I speak as a convert, a former #BeOS developer. It was ever so long ago, in my post-#Caltech years, and I find myself wondering if someone at 'Tech didn't decide to keep spying on what I was doing. I would have made it easy for them; I went on using my UGCS email address for years.

And I propose to help them out, magically! An alchemical ritual to strengthen the elemental aspects of Be and BeOS.

~Chara

Eugenia L

Running Haiku OS on bare metal, on two different laptops: a Thinkpad x280 and a DELL 5480. Everything works perfectly except the touchpads/tracksticks (on the Thinkpad it crashes a lot but it works, on the DELL it doesn't work at all). With a mouse it works great.

Haiku has certainly come a long way!

#opensource#foss#operatingsystem
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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

My nephew (who is 19) really likes to investigate and dig into various topics. He’ll regularly text me things like “how much do you know about the Ebionites in early Christianity?” or “have you heard of a book called Slaughterhouse Five?”

Anyway he just texted me this (well, last night, but I just saw it):

#BeOS#haiku
Kancept

I really do miss #BeOS. I've been doing file transfers a lot this past year as I consolidate, clean up, and recover old drives of data. One of the nice feature Tracker had was the ability to pause a file copy. I'm moving TBs of data in both MacOS and Linux and sometimes in the middle of a 12 hour copy, it'd be nice to pause it so the disk isn't thrashing for something *I* need.

I'm not convinced computing has gotten better since then.

jbz

✅ The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

｢ One of BFS's most important and widely touted features is its support for extended attributes. An example of the importance of attributes is illustrated with an example of MP3 files. Information fields important to an MP3 file would be: song title, band, album, release date, encoding rate, length, number of times played ｣

arstechnica.com/information-te

Ars Technica · The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospectiveBy Ars Staff
#beos#bfs#haikuos
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faraiwe

Some folks think I am some sort of #Linux worship fiend.

Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute #enshittification of most commercial software, the whole #FOSS thing seems to prove itself, time and time again, as a process (community created, refined and supported) that generates Things That Work. Because their objective IS to make it work, not generate "value for shareholders" and help CEOs buy their fifth yacht.

I have oodles and buckets of things to pick at, regarding Linux. Monolithic kernel?? Really?? What is this, 1960s? You manage memory HOW? Oh. The list goes on and on, don't get me started.

I was a serious enthusiast of the myriad of alternative OSes, in the Cambrian-like explosion of diversity of the 90s. So much diverse, curious, ingenious, brilliant solutions and notions! #BeOS, #OS2 #QNX (ok, 1980s), #Plan9OS, #ReactOS, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...

Compared to those, Linux seemed to actually freeze and stall evolution, sticking to the limitations of the vision by Torvalds (sorry, man, it's true, plenty of admiration for the guy, but dropped the ball on that kernel) at the time of its inception.

However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.

Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh #Haiku ... eh....) lol

There.

/rant

Eugenia L

Haiku, the little OS that could. The open source version of #BeOS, an OS that felt like it had a soul (#Amiga anyone?). Run easily on a virtual machine.

Little known fact: while the bosses came from #Apple, the principal engineers of #BeOS came from NeXT, and the younger ones that "graduated" from that experience ended up becoming the principal ones behind #Android (after a quick sting at #PalmOS).

In Silicon Valley, everything's connected.

#haiku#opensource#foss
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