News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Haiku Beta is finally here by blacksmith_tb on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:56PM (#18771574)
I still have a BeOS 3.5in floppy in a drawer somewhere, so this announcement produced a little nostalgia for ~1999 or so. That said, it's sort of hard to imagine lots of new OSes springing up, they take a lot of care and feeding... I would think the obvious choice would be to somehow to support packages from another OS (say Snap or Flatpak apps from Linux), so that you could overcome the need to port everything (or have no users).
Re:Haiku Beta is finally here by Koshkin on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:04PM (#18771637)
> hard to imagine lots of new OSes springing up, they take a lot of care and feeding

I imagine the OS inside the Tamagotchi toy would be the prime example.