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Haiku, formerly known as OpenBeOS, is an open source project dedicated to the recreation, followed by the extension, of the Be Operating System. It aims to be compatible with BeOS at both the source and binary level, allowing software written and compiled for BeOS to compile and run without modification on Haiku. This would provide Haiku users with an instant library of applications to choose from (even programs whose developers were no longer in business or had no interest in updating them), in addition to allowing development of other applications to resume from where they had been terminated following the demise of Be, Inc.Haiku was originally named OpenBeOS when it was founded in 2001, but a new name was chosen to avoid any possible lawsuit with Palm, Inc., who aquired Be's intellectual property and technology assets (including the BeOS source code and trademarks) in 2001. The new name, decided by project leaders and influenced by an official community vote, was revealed at WalterCon in 2004. The name intends to reflect the elegance and simplicity that attracted many to the BeOS platform, but is also a reference to the distinctive haiku error messages found in NetPositive, the default BeOS web browser, and many other Be applications.
Individual servers and APIs (collectively known in Haiku as "kits") are being developed from scratch by a team of volunteer enthusiasts. A few kits have been deemed feature complete and a the remainder are currently in various stages of development.
Haiku's kernelThe word kernel can mean more than one thing. The kernel of a seed is all that is within the outer coat of the seed, as the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument. The term kernel can als is a forkIn software, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. The term is also used more loosely to represent a similar branching of any work (for example, th of NewOSNewOS is a free, full-featured operating system with full source code available, along with periodic binary snapshots. It currently runs on: Intel and AMD based single and multiprocessor CPUs Sega Dreamcast It is loosely based on concepts gleaned from BeO, a microkernel written by former BeBe, Incorporated was the company that developed the BeOS operating system and BeBox computer. It was founded by Jean-Louis Gassee in 1990 and its assets were bought by Palm, Inc. for US$11 million in 2001, at which point the company entered dissolution. engineer Travis Geiselbrecht , but is currently far from being considered complete and ready for public use.
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