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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by madhadron on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:33AM (#23474284)
> Interesting to see this isn't another linux distribution, but a real OS.

This is the open source continuation of BeOS, which was first released in 1995. It's barely younger than Linux, and about the same age as the older distributions like SuSE, RedHat, and Debian.

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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by waddlesplash on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:58AM (#23477049)
BeOS was never released as open-source, Haiku is a clean-room reimplementation, with some very different internals. Development started in 2001/2002, so more than a bit younger than Linux.
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Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released by madhadron on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:15PM (#23484231)
I guess continuation could be read to mean the code was open sourced and development continued. Sorry I was unclear about that. But the design and lineage of the system and many of the developers on it extend back through BeOS.
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