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

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.







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