FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Just one, big question, seriously

[Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Goff wrote:
> Why exactly are we trying to re-create BeOS, sure, it was great, but it
> also had many problems, such as networking, OpenGL, and such....

It had many problems, but they were not inherent to the design of BeOS.
Now since we have to rewrite everything we certainly won't have these 
networking problems as the original BeOS version had, and OpenGL was 
simply missing and will be replaced by Mesa (an open-source OpenGL 
compatible graphics library). All such problems will be addressed by 
upcoming versions of OpenBeOS.

> Instead, we should be going on with a new OS, with new cutting edge
> features and ideas, and for application support, have a sort of
> compatibility layer, or subsystem, if you will, for R5.

BeOS had many features and ideas that other OSes didn't and still don't 
have (and also didn't have some that others had). All in all it was a 
very innovative piece of software that still stands above all other 
widely used OSes. We could certainly create a completely new OS, but it 
is absolutely obvious that this would take *much* more time to create, 
starting with planning and designing, and we wouldn't come very far, 
since everyone has different opinions and actually all what the people 
*here* want to see is BeOS.

Michael

> Yes, it would have been great if Palm had released the BeOS source, but
> they didn't, and I think it's time to move on, not try to re-create the
> past.
>
> By the way, this is a serious question, not trying to nock the OBOS
> movement or anything, so please, no flamming.