Re: [OT] Haiku OS

2018-02-28 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Richmond Mathewson wrote: > https://www.haiku-os.org/ > > Does anyone know if Haiku OS; > > 1. Shows any sign whatsoever of gaining any traction? Slim to none. Microsoft owns the desktop, Linux is the de-facto standard beyond the desktop, Apple owns the high-end of the market. I see little r

Re: [OT] Haiku OS

2018-02-28 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
AROS however is quite good, and has some 2018 activity. http://aros.sourceforge.net/ http://aros.sourceforge.net/pictures/screenshots/ ~Roger On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Richmond, > > Current Official Version Inf

Re: [OT] Haiku OS

2018-02-28 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
This is probably more interesting: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/google-enable-linux-apps-chrome-os-recent-code-commits-suggest greetings, William 2018-02-28 15:52 GMT+01:00 Rick Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > Hi Richmond, > > Current Official Version Info

Re: [OT] Haiku OS

2018-02-28 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Richmond, Current Official Version Information Version: R1/Alpha 4.1 Release date: November 14th, 2012 Computer platform: x86-32 Something that hasn’t seen an update since 2012 probably isn’t getting much traction at all. I hope you find this information somewhat helpful. Rick > On Feb 28,

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/02/14 22:15, Mike Bonner wrote: Has anyone tried open indiana, aka open solaris? No: at the moment I'm being a "real prawn" trying to install Livecode Community 6.5.2 on ReactOS inside VMWare. Seems to get stuck. ReactOS is similar to Haiku insofar as it is on version Alpha something

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Mike Bonner
Has anyone tried open indiana, aka open solaris? I have it running in a couple VMs (server version command line, and full desktop version) Don't know all that much about it yet but so far it seems to be rock solid. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > And to think that Apple was seriously considering using BeOS as it's next > generation OS at one time. > It was a done deal until the Be folks thought they had apple over a barrel, and demanded an insane amount of money. Jobs was a much better

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/02/14 13:50, Dirk prive wrote: Ah, it's back. I guess they had a server outage then? Several of their websites went down, which made it look like the project had gone. Well, I'm happy, at least. Richmond. Dirk Cleenwerck On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Dirk prive
Ah, it's back. I guess they had a server outage then? Several of their websites went down, which made it look like the project had gone. Dirk Cleenwerck On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > I see nothing on that page which would indicate an end to the project? > > > On

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I see nothing on that page which would indicate an end to the project? On 05.02.2014, at 09:07, Richmond wrote: > It seems that Haiku (a.k.a. BeOS rediviva) has bitten the dust: > > http://haiku-os.org/ -- Use an alternative Dictionary viewer: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ Chat with other

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
And to think that Apple was seriously considering using BeOS as it’s next generation OS at one time. Bob On Feb 5, 2014, at 24:07 , Richmond wrote: > It seems that Haiku (a.k.a. BeOS rediviva) has bitten the dust: > > http://haiku-os.org/ > > A greta pity. > > Richmond. > > _

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-05 Thread Dirk prive
Not completely. https://dev.haiku-os.org/ https://github.com/haiku/haiku But yes, it looks like another casualty. Sad. It booted my netbook in under 10 seconds, but I couldn't use it due to lack of up to date software. I was hoping they could make it work. I guess losing Google's support for the S