HaikuOS Registrar Working

Professor Cool Linux writes "'The registrar, the app server's shy brother, who manages several system-wide application services like the application roster, the MIME types database, the clipboard, and message runners, is now working under HaikuOS.'"

not that i liked the movie or anything...

[SPY_jmr1]

And then? I mean to say... I speek technogeek rather well, and this just goes over my head... Perhaps it's the hour, but am I missing something potentially impressive here? (preferably explained in english, ;) )

Re:Not wanting to sound insensitive...

[bersl2]

It's a small part of an unfinished clone of a dead niche operating system.

What, not even the benefit of a Netcraft announcement?

Re:Not wanting to sound insensitive...

[gl4ss]

*It's a small part of an unfinished clone of a dead niche operating system. Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often enough to warrant it being newsworthy.

I respect what these guys are trying to do, but this doesn't belong on Slashdot any more than the 0.1 release of foobar text editor that somebody whipped up on their lunch break. *

OK, slashdot is NEWS FOR NERDS.

this definetely is NERDY. much more geeky than all the politics crap.

filter the beos stuff out if you wish.

Re:Not wanting to sound insensitive...

[capoccia]

SO?
RTFA -- "...in principle we should now be able to run most non-graphical applications."

Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often...
Aye.

...this doesn't belong on Slashdot...
Operating system news is about as much nerd as you can get. It's also open-source, so feel free to cannibalize.

Re:Not wanting to sound insensitive...

[DaveJay]

Hands up everybody who has actually installed this, let alone uses it often enough to warrant it being newsworthy.

(raising my hand)

Used it daily for months, hated to let it go, but with the shutdown of development it couldn't keep up with the hardware. Very happy to see this continuing to move forward, and hopefully something useful will come of it someday.

Oh, and if you're looking for a great user of BeOS in this day and age, check out TuneTracker [tunetrackersystems.com].

Significant progress indeed

[Blowfishie]

Haiku is basically rebilding BeOS from scratch open-source style, so getting one of the fundamental building blocks working in such a way that it allows non-GUI apps to run is a great achievement.

The status page [haiku-os.org] has more details on the overall system progress. When I first visited that page, I though that it would take forever to finish. I looked again just now and got a most optimistic feeling.

Re:Significant progress indeed

[jhdevos]

I think he's barking at the wrong tree here.

BeOS was innovative in many respects. At least it was a nice, clean implementation of some great idea's, and therefore makes a very good base for further improvements. So the worth of the Haiku project is twofold: making sure those innovations go somewhere, and making a base which can be further improved upon. I think there is definitely a need for something like that.

Oh, and I would still like to hear about how Be was 'lacking' from the PP.

Jan

Re:Significant progress indeed

[mabhatter654]

How was BeOS lacking? The only thing lacking was their legal team couldn't break MS monopoly contracts. BeOS is a much cleaner platform for the internet age than just about anything else [except maybe amegia]. The way everything could just "work" together would have completely revolutionized the software industry... Although the BeOS model is much better for OSS development than properitary. It's extremely modular, that's the whole point of the OSS working to recreate it one module at a time!!!

Seriously though, BeOS had features in 1999 that MS and Apple are braging about "innovating" in their OS NEXT YEAR!!! Of course Apple has hired some of those BeOS programmers to add the feature to tiger...so in a way they are getting their kudos.

One example

[no reason to be here]

compare the BeOS file system to the one that Apple is planning on introducing in tiger, or the fabled WinFS that seems to keep on getting pushed further and further into the future.

Actually, WinFS is supposed to replace the file system with a database, which is what BeOS had in it's earliest days, before the guys at Be, Inc. decided that it ate too many resources, and then designed the BFS that Apple is now copying (and don't say they aren't, they hired the original designer of Be's file system to write th

Re:Significant progress indeed

[be-fan]

BeOS was rather seriously lacking in the area of filesystem and virtual memory performance. The biggest problem was the lack of a unified file/vm cache.

Re:Significant progress indeed

[renoX]

> except maybe amiga

The OS without memory protection?
Great!

HaikuOS

[Anonymous Coward]

leaves falling softly
to untouched green expanses
LET BEOS DIE