#beos — Public Fediverse posts
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Today is the 25th Anniversary of the start of Haiku OS, an open source OS attempting to pick up where BeOS left off. It is a clean room re-implementation of the public BeOS APIs that tried to embrace a lot of its core features like pervasive multithreading, desktop first, etc. It is still in active development, but in beta status, that can be a fun alternative OS to play with. This Google Tech Talk presentation on the state of the project 6 years in provides a lot of historical background I forgot. It was nice to see Jean-Louis Gasset, the founder and CEO of Be Inc give a warm introduction to the presentation. #BeOS #HaikuOS #foss #ComputerHistory youtu.be/tbXsqXhjEGU?si=2kbp4C… -
Today's @haiku|s 25th birthday! Congratulations! 🎊🍾🎉 #HaikuOS #BeOS https://www.haiku-os.org
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25 years of #HaikuOS! 🍃
A great retrospective on a quarter-century of the open-source operating system carrying forward the spirit of #BeOS. Perfect read for #OpenSource and #RetroComputing enthusiasts.
🔗 https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/969/25-years-of-haiku/
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Gobe Productive – an integrated office suite created in the late 1990s by GoBe Software (the team behind the former ClarisWorks). The program combined a word processor, spreadsheet, graphics tools, and... https://archiveapp.org/gobe-productive/ #office #linux #windows #beos
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Someone lied 30 years ago. Beosbible.com is for sale, so no updates for me.
Fortunately the author @shacker , is now hosting these at https://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/
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I'm getting close to the first official release of my native #HaikuOS spreadsheet! 🚀
Looking for beta testers to try opening their own #Excel (XLS/XLSX) or #OpenOffice (ODS) files. Drop a comment or send me a DM if you're interested, and I’ll send you an advanced beta build! :)
https://forum.desktoponfire.com/d/43-atomo123/7 #spreadsheet #BeOS -
(Meanwhile, HaikuOS slouches towards 1.0... a story 23 years -- so far -- in the making.) Help needed for R1/Beta6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)
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#bookmark: BeOS distributives http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=2054 BeOS — операционная система, разработанная Be Inc. как мультимедийная система нового поколения. К выгодным отличиям BeOS от других популярных в то время систем относят многопоточность, микроядерность, поддержку многопроцессорных архитектур, 64-битную журналируемую файловую систему, крайне удобный и простой пользовательский интерфейс. #BeOS
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Successfully loading Haiku from Grub now (I used to use reFind). Awesome!
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Atomo123: a native spreadsheet for Haiku, written using only the system's own APIs.
Interface and Layout Kit for the UI, Translation Kit to open CSV/XLS/XLSX/ODS (BTranslatorRoster picks the right add-on by itself), vector HVIF icons, registers itself as Tracker's preferred app. No external dependencies.
The calculation engine comes from the old BeOS Sum-It, ported to 64-bit. The UI is written from scratch.
Still early stage.
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This weekend, I really need to check into running #HaikuOS on a #MacBookPro. I really loved #BeOS back in the day, and it seems like this would be a fun little plafform to develop apps for fun.
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One of the best aspects of #BeOS (and to some degree #Haiku was that most things could be done by putting files in a folder. You want an app to autostart, you put it (or a link) in the autostart folder. And it's in a rather understandable path. Not ~/.config/autostart which a special launcher format.
In #atomique there is and will be also a lot of "set in stone" structure. Like this is where you put files and there are not two.
If you want to change the icon of a disk in atomique you put an _icons/ folder with two .png inside (small.icon.png and large.icon.png) , be it disk or an app package, same structure.
Since most of the user-facing part is in Lua, it means for example a MenuBar widget is one .lua file you drop in a folder. A script that you want to run hourly gets into System:Periodic/hourly/mycleanup.lua and such things. You can do more complex stuff but the simple things should be a file drop away. -
Haiku just gave beta6 a date: mid-August. Yet the June report still surfaces foundational bugs: an I/O scheduler flaw that could corrupt data on modern SSDs, a memory control register misinitialized at EFI boot, and Haiku Inc.'s 2025 financial report still missing. Technical accounting is punctual, financial accounting is a year behind.
https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/913/haiku-beta6-data-corruption-bug/
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@p3ter yes, and well designed #BeOS and #HaikuOS take full advantage because that is *the* only filesystem and the standard libraries support and encourage that.
I think that’s part of why it never caught on in Linux and BSD - there are filesystems that support attributes, but using that facility is not portable between them and toolkits don’t support it.
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@alisynthesis @ercanbrack @bloognoo @amadeus Apple and Microsoft both have made their current OSes bloated annoyances.
#BeOS was my favourite for appearance and functionality.
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@ralph @jimmac @cwebber Palm Inc. spun off #PalmOS into its own company, #PalmSource, which was sold to ACCESS. PalmSource introduced a new PalmOS version, Cobalt, which was great (it was based on #BeOS), but Palm Inc. didn't ship it with their devices, instead they developed #WebOS. Then, they were bought by HP, who unsuccessfully tried to build WebOS into their printers, and then sold it off to LG, where it now resides in some Smart TVs. Cobalt could have been so great if it ever had a chance.
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https://v-os.dev/news/vitruvian-0.4.1/
New release of Vitruvian!
The system has made great strides since the last release.
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Sotoportego 0.1.0 is out: a native VPN client for Haiku with working end-to-end OpenVPN. Import an .ovpn, optionally save the password in the keystore, and the tunnel comes up. Precompiled binaries in the release, needs Haiku beta5+ and openvpn from pkgman. IPv4 only for now.
https://github.com/atomozero/Sotoportego/releases/tag/v0.1.0
#HaikuOS #BeOS #OpenSource
