[Deaf-lug] Haiku

[Fintan Gaughan]

I have heard of it.. never tried it.
there is also AmigaOS4.0 which suprised me that was still going.

Distros  I have tried are most Linux varant
BSD
Hurd.

Why are you getting a EEEpc when you already have a laptop of some kind?
I love to get my childen (OLPC)  but first I need to get one but I am
so poor :-(


Fintan

On 13/02/2008, JGJones <mailinglist at gwallgofi.com> wrote:
>
>  I wonder if any of you heard of BeOS?
>
>  This was what started me on the Linux actually even though it's not Linux.
> BeOS is now a dead OS, that *might* had been the replacement for OS9, but
> they went with NeXT instead along with Steve Jobs.
>
>  However when I used it, I always loved the fast speed of it. Anyway a new
> project to bring back to life BeOS is called Haiku which is programmed from
> grounds up to be as similar as possible to BeOS (ie booting up in seconds
> (and I mean that...seconds - BeOS is FAST).
>
>  They do have VMWare images so that you can try it out in VMWare Player
> (free) and the boot up time in VMWare player is screamingly fast - took less
> than 3 seconds in my case.
>
>  Was thinking that if this is fast it would make for an ideal replacement OS
> for an EEEpc if I get one - since for an EEEpc I would only want internet
> and email access and basic office suite (ie Abiword would be ideal)
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