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Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing<p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>. Surely it's won some kind of symbolic war with <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>. 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 <a href="https://meow.social/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaikuOS</span></a>, which keeps its small flame burning. It's the most promising escape from the <a href="https://meow.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> mire, in my opinion, a way towards something less hairy and intimidating yet modular and accessible in its range of features.</p><p>But I speak as a convert, a former <a href="https://meow.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a> developer. It was ever so long ago, in my post-<a href="https://meow.social/tags/Caltech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caltech</span></a> 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.</p><p>And I propose to help them out, magically! An alchemical ritual to strengthen the elemental aspects of Be and BeOS.</p><p>~Chara</p>
Eugenia L<p>New rEFInd bootloader theme for my laptop! It boots straight to The Choice. The Matrix is my favorite film of all time, so...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/refind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thematrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thematrix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ubuntu</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>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.</p><p>Haiku has certainly come a long way!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haikuos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haikuos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>I found these updated Haiku icons for Linux, and they look great on my wanna-be Haiku/BeOS-like XFce desktop under EndeavourOS. It just feels right.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavourOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endeavourOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>icons</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>I really dislike the flat design that has come to overpower everything since 2013. I prefer the old iphone Skeuomorphism, pixel art icons from the '90s (e.g. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>), and the new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neuomorphism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuomorphism</span></a> (but with more contrast than shown in the pic). But flat design, no, thank you.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flatdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flatdesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skeuomorphism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skeuomorphism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ui</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/userinterface" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>userinterface</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualdesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>Some more tweaking, and my BeOS impersonation under XFce is near complete. It just feels good.</p><p>And the system now cold-boots at 475 MB of RAM. Awesome!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavouros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endeavouros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>These BeOS themes look good-enough via XFce on my EndeavourOS installation. Reminds me of the good old times. Ah, these were the days...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavouros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endeavouros</span></a></p>
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually<p>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?”</p><p>Anyway he just texted me this (well, last night, but I just saw it):</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a></p>
Kancept<p>I really do miss <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>. 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. </p><p>I'm not convinced computing has gotten better since then.</p>
jbz<p>✅ The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective </p><p>「 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 」</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/information-te</span><span class="invisible">chnology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/bfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bfs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/haikuos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haikuos</span></a></p>
Josh Justice<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@linuxmagazine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxmagazine</span></a></span> as someone who was there for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>, this feels a lot like the BeOS situation, which does not bode well</p>
faraiwe<p>Blahblah, I miss <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>.</p>
Eugenia L<p>I found online, on the WayBackMachine, two of my own desktop screenshots running BeOS in the early 2000s.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystem</span></a></p>
faraiwe<p>Some folks think I am some sort of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> worship fiend.</p><p>Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute <a href="https://beige.party/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> of most commercial software, the whole <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> 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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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! <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS2</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/QNX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QNX</span></a> (ok, 1980s), <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Plan9OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plan9OS</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReactOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReactOS</span></a>, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...</p><p>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.</p><p>However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.</p><p>Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haiku</span></a> ... eh....) lol</p><p>There.</p><p>/rant</p>
chris actual<p>This is the late-90s, early 2000s tech content I miss dearly<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>90s</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2000s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>2000s</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://www.bedope.com/stories/0115.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">bedope.com/stories/0115.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>Haiku, the little OS that could. The open source version of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>, an OS that felt like it had a soul (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> anyone?). Run easily on a virtual machine.</p><p>Little known fact: while the bosses came from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, the principal engineers of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a> came from NeXT, and the younger ones that "graduated" from that experience ended up becoming the principal ones behind <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> (after a quick sting at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmOS</span></a>).</p><p>In Silicon Valley, everything's connected.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Haiku OS’s Beta 5 Release Brings Us Into a New BeOS Era - The name BeOS is one which tends to evoke either sighs of nostalgia or blank stare... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/10/30/haiku-oss-beta-5-release-brings-us-into-a-new-beos-era/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/10/30/haiku-</span><span class="invisible">oss-beta-5-release-brings-us-into-a-new-beos-era/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwaredevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystem</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>featured</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a></p>
faraiwe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@BasementDweller3000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BasementDweller3000</span></a></span> </p><p>Hmmm</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a></p>
The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus<p>Anyone got $2,000? :winged_money: </p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/224606013858" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ebay.com/itm/224606013858</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p>Haiku OS beta 5 has just been released. Action Retro takes it for a nice spin around the block.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqdIF97CfGc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=MqdIF97CfG</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haiku</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaikuOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystem</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demo</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ActionRetro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActionRetro</span></a></p>