At the Southern California Linux Expo this past weekend, Google engineer and open-source software developer Bruno de Albuquerque gave a presentation about Haiku, a project devoted to creating an ...

Jean-Louis Gassée now writes a weekly column about Apple, but back in the day he was head of the Macintosh division under Apple CEO John Sculley. After his removal by Sculley in 1990 following nine ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Earlier this month BeOS aficionado Scot Hacker, author of the BeOS Bible and generally all-around swell guy, wrote a rather lengthy essay on his exodus from the BeOS wherein he describes wandering the ...

Haiku OS, a modern clone of BeOS, is an interesting look back at what Apple once considered to advance its Mac operating system. In 1995, Apple's head of Apple France, Jean-Louis Gassee left Apple to ...

There was a moment in the years spanning the move from 16-bit platforms to 32-bit, during which it looked for a moment as though there might be a few new operating system contenders making a mark on ...

In the IT industry where technology and trends are changing rapidly, there are many products and projects that disappear without spreading to the world, such as a modular smartphone `` By the time ...

It may have disappeared a while ago, but the faithful have never forgotten BeOS, and Haiku, an open source successor to the much-loved BeOS, is getting closer to a finished product. It isn't ready for ...

Just over 17 years since the project launched, and more than 18 years since the last release of the operating system that inspired it, the open source Haiku OS is nearing a beta release. It has been a ...

If you haven't heard of Haiku by now, it's probably for good reason: as of a year ago, the OS could barely connect to the internet, and certainly wasn't anywhere close to replacing your Linux build of ...

Back in the mid-1990s, there was one thing incredibly obvious to anyone using a Mac: Apple wasn’t ever going to develop a modern successor to the classic Mac Operating System. Despite screenshots of ...

A disturbing trend in modern OSes is to abandon optimization code for multiple processors. Most operating system are optimized for the i686 platform by default, and 64bit compiles are becoming more ...