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A quick look back at BeOS, the PC operating system that tried to challenge Windows and Mac (www.neowin.net)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I still have it installed (Haiku, actually) on a small 32-bit laptop that I boot occasionally just to marvel at how awesome it is.

A port to Arm or Risc V would be great, it seems like a natural match to small SBCs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, if you want "compile something unstable yourself," here is their official documentation for ARM64.

And here is someone's progress report on porting to RISC-V. They seem to have started in 2021, so maybe they were successful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that the project is really hurting due to the original programmers having little to no time to devote to it, so I'm not expecting to run it on a Raspberry Pi anytime soon.

I wish I could help, but I'm no programmer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That doesn't surprise me. I have Haiku running in a VM, but haven't looked at it in 2 years, despite the fact I used BeOS as a daily driver back in the day.