{"id":29611,"date":"2023-01-12T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/beos-lives-on-in-the-new-haiku-os-beta-4\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:34:38","slug":"beos-lives-on-in-the-new-haiku-os-beta-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/beos-lives-on-in-the-new-haiku-os-beta-4\/","title":{"rendered":"BeOS lives on, in the new Haiku OS Beta 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Haiku OS, a modern clone of BeOS, is an interesting look back at what Apple once considered to advance its Mac<\/a> operating system. <\/p>\n

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Be went on to develop the BeBox<\/a>, a PowerPC-based computer, and the BeOS<\/a> \u2014 an ultra-fast modern media OS featuring fast disk I\/O, rendering, and kernel. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1997 when Steve Jobs<\/a> returned to Apple, and Apple was in need of a new operating system, the competition was between NeXTStep<\/a> developed at Jobs’ other company, NeXT<\/a>, and BeOS. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Apple chose NeXT, buying the company. Over the next few years NeXTStep was modified to become Mac OS X, and ultimately iPhone OS 1. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But today, BeOS lives on in the Haiku Project<\/a><\/em> \u2014 an open-source API-compatible port of BeOS. A dedicated group of developers have been quietly working on Haiku for over fifteen years, toiling in their spare time, and the project is finally coming to fruition. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Haiku features all the same performance improvements of the original BeOS, and improved support for modern hardware. It’s also astonishingly fast, booting and shutting down in just a few seconds on most machines. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Haiku B4 is compatible with most modern and older hardware including most Intel and Apple Silicon<\/a> systems, Macs, PCs and ARM-based computers. Given its provenance, it will run quite well on, say, an older Celeron<\/a> laptop from the Windows 7<\/a> era. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since it’s beta software still, you may want to install B4 on a spare machine or hard drive. In any event if you do install it, be sure to back up all your data first.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n