[openbeos] Re: Open BeOS

> > His second sentence makes his intent pretty clear. He isn't saying that GNU
> > took the code. I don't think that anyone is saying that (even SCO - they are
> > talking about Linux kernel, not utilities).
> 
> SCO would say my Grandma stole their ancient source if it would get
> their stock price up.

Don't give them any ideas. :-)

> What I consider to be a "GNU system" is an OS, made mostly from GNU
> software, with other Free Software components.  This seems broadly
> inline with what the FSF consider the "GNU system".

Depending on the percentages and how you count "mostly", OBOS in and of itself 
might qualify. :-)
 
> I expect device problems would be limited if I were using OBOS for the
> kernel.  All GNU software would be used for in this case is userland
> code.  And depending on how POSIX OBOS is, this could be feasible.

Sure, until you want to do video or audio or, in general, any IO that isn't tty 
based. That is where the idea has more troubles.
 
> In this thread I am really just trying to gain an understanding of the
> way BeOS/OBOS works, in comparison to other OS's I use and understand.
> Now I am just considering options; if something has good performance and
> interesting features it is worth the effort.  I understand there would
> be a lot of work to get things running, but I'm a hacker, and that is
> the challenge.  I'll see how it goes with OBOS development, perhaps
> returning to the list when there is a test distro.

Pretty similar in a lot of the fundamental ways. Mostly the difference is in 
the 
choices of optimization areas. Everything is about tradeoffs. BeOS makes 
different tradeoffs than server based OS's.

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