The name BeOS is one which tends to evoke either sighs of nostalgia or blank stares, mostly determined by one’s knowledge of the 1990s operating system scene. Originally released in 1995 by Be Inc., ...

Just over 17 years since the project launched, and more than 18 years since the last release of the operating system that inspired it, the open source Haiku OS is nearing a beta release. It has been a ...

It may have disappeared a while ago, but the faithful have never forgotten BeOS, and Haiku, an open source successor to the much-loved BeOS, is getting closer to a finished product. It isn't ready for ...

Haiku is a free operating system and an alternative to Linux. It celebrated its seventh birthday on 18 August, and it's still being actively developed. Haiku is nowhere near being considered a ...

It might have ended very differently for BeOS. At one point, it looked like BeOS, developed by Be Inc, might become the operating system for Apple hardware. Instead, Apple ended up tapping NeXT and ...

If you do decide to live in the world of Haiku, it's the desktop environment that's going to have the biggest impact on your routine. It's akin to switching from KDE to Xfce, for example. The file ...