It’s good to be back in the BeOS/Haiku world.
I remember building a BeOS box years ago around
an Abit BP6 board and taking it to my OS class to
show how wonderful BeOS threading is.
I’ve always compared operating systems to automobiles.
Either it has to get you somewhere or it has to make you
feel like you’re operating a fine piece of machinery to be of
any value.
The best automobiles (Porsche, etc) make you forget about
the machine so that you can concentrate on the drive.
It doesn’t get in the way and annoy with gimmicks.
Function over form, that’s what it is.
I fell in love with BeOS because of its singleminded
focus to do what it was designed to do very well so that
the user can concentrate on enjoying the things that they
like to do. It’s all about the user…
Haiku should be the Honda S2000 of operating systems:
efficient, solid, simple, reliable, easy to work on, lots of giggle factor
and relatively low price of entry.
Random thoughts from a miserable soul lost in the world
of Windows and the destruction of all things honest and pure.
Comments are welcome.
I agree. I don’t like the posts on here that ask for pure eye-candy, or to do something because OSX does it.
For example, I’d much rather double click on an app and have it appear near-instantly than have it spark a “cool” 3D window-appearing animation. The difference is all in the feel - BeOS makes you feel like it does what you want, OSX feels like one of those interactive movies where you get to make a choice every now and again and then have to sit through the next pre-scripted bit. Maybe that’s just me.
There is also room for some useful-and-cool stuff in Haiku of course - expose would be nice - but useful must always come first. If there’s no point in it, why have it?
as a newbie i stumbled into beos personal edition last year. i installed zeta, openbeos and some phosphoros version i found on ther ineternet and they all have been a great experience.
so how come i started using beos? i was completely fed up with windows viruses, worms, whatever they’re called. to me they are just brutal damage causing things. built by a…h…s for everybody. but i do not want to be just everybody, i want a clean, virus free computer. i have a fast athlon pc which slows down to the speed of a vw beetle running on 2 cylinders because of all virus scanners, firewalls, spyware removal tools and so on running in the background. It’s like buying a porsche and keep cruising the city during traffic jam.
i remember the good old times, when i used a macintosh computer and never had a serious virus on it. new macs are great but expensive.
new macs - i find, others do not - lost their charme. but when i installed beos personal edition last year, it had the same old charme of old school macintoshs. very very very fast os. no viruses. no graphical gimmicks. i loved it right away and still do.
if i would know about programming an dcoding, i would love to take part in the haiku project. but i don’t. therefore i am one the many people out there impatiently waiting for the new haiku. give us the speed back, let’s use more beos!
Why even try to make it similar to OSX (or other OSes for that matter), why not make it similar to BeOS? - which is the OS we love, and therefor recreating!
Yeah! I mean No! Please do not make it anything like osx. keep beos beos! Nothing to say against any improvements, but please nobody needs a damn osx clone or a windust clone or gnome.
i think everybody entering this forum agrees WE WANT BEOS!
I think its weird when people put in a lot of work to make an OS resemble another OS. OK, KDE has some themes which can easily be applied to look like BeOS or Windows or AmigaOS, but to code an application specifically for it?
If a person wants things to look like OSX they should look into running OSX. Then again, if its you’re application you should do whatever it is that you want with it. Code to please yourself.
Reminds me of the article
"In the beginning there was a command line…"
In that
Windows > Station Wagon (basic; but most popular)
Linux > Free Tank (multifunctional; no one gets it)
Mac > Mercedes (expensive; good…)
BeOS > Batmobile (uber powerful; but not exactly for everyone…)
So i’ll declare Haiku to be…
Super Batmobile on the assembly line
I made a similar analogy on my site. I said people still use BeOS for the same reason that some people still have classic cars. Just because they’re old certainly doesn’t mean they’re no good.
Thinking of cars and OSes I would compare BeOS R5 to the Pontiac Fiero GT ‘88, a wonderful car that was sleek and had good power(even more with a bit of tinkering), that sadly was only produced for 4 years from 84’ to 88’.
With that said I think that makes Haiku the unreleased 1990 prototype Fiero.
Linux and Unix are definately something like T-72 tanks.
Windoze(especialy considering the upcoming Vista) reminds me of one of those car show Honda Civics. Overpriced with a ton of shiny things and fancy fiberglass haphazardly integrated. But with all that extra fiberglass(and most likely at least a few kilos of bondo), it just weights down an already underpowered, and overpriced car(though it has tons of fancy little A.D.D. inspired gagets).
OSX hmmm… have to think a little bit more for an exaple for that.
Thinking of cars and OSes I would compare BeOS R5 to the Pontiac Fiero GT '88, a wonderful car that was sleek and had good power(even more with a bit of tinkering), that sadly was only produced for 4 years from 84' to 88'.
With that said I think that makes Haiku the unreleased 1990 prototype Fiero.
Didn’t the Fiero’s have constant fire problems? I had heard that was the primary reason for discontinuing them.
Yah, it only happened for the early Fieros. When a couple of them caught fire on a Pontiac test track in 1983 it caught their attention. The problem was the connecting rods were faulty. It was like 1 in 5 fieros that had the defect. A connecting rod that breaks at high speed is like a shrapnel grenade detonating inside the motor. In Fieros, chunks of broken metal flew with such force that they ripped through the engine block. Oil would spill onto the hot exhaust pipes, and often ignite. Oops.
Yah, it only happened for the early Fieros. When a couple of them caught fire on a Pontiac test track in 1983 it caught their attention. The problem was the connecting rods were faulty. It was like 1 in 5 fieros that had the defect. A connecting rod that breaks at high speed is like a shrapnel grenade detonating inside the motor. In Fieros, chunks of broken metal flew with such force that they ripped through the engine block. Oil would spill onto the hot exhaust pipes, and often ignite. Oops. :)
Cool!
That must by why my car-enthusiast friend always called them the Pontiac "Fire-in-a-box"
Maybe that is a good relation to BeOS… afterall, for some people it’s HOT, and “ON FIRE” - eh?
