The object-oriented BeOS did everything Apple wanted the new Mac OS to do, and more. Unfortunately for the Be Inc. employees, Apple wasn’t so set on the deal.

The name BeOS is one which tends to evoke either sighs of nostalgia or blank stares, mostly determined by one’s knowledge of the 1990s operating system scene. Originally released in 1995 by B… ...

COMMENTARY--The responses from ZDNet News readers to the BeOS article I wrote 'Vote BeOS for freedom of choice', were surprising, swift and passionate. I want to report on those responses here, as ...

Haiku is a spiritual successor to BeOS, with a focus on a clean and user-friendly design paired with low system requirements. The minimum system requirements are still an Intel Pentium II/AMD ...

BeOS might be defunct, but it still lives on today, just in a much different form. Haiku is an open-source OS that’s based directly on BeOS, and it can be run on modern hardware. Haiku is a ...

Over the next few years NeXTStep was modified to become Mac OS X, and ultimately iPhone OS 1. But today, BeOS lives on in the Haiku Project — an open-source API-compatible port of BeOS.

In the spirit of BeOS, Haiku's boot performance is very good. In my tests, I got from the startup splash screen to a fully usable desktop in roughly four seconds. This is one of Haiku's strengths ...

Scion of obscure OS that could have replaced Mac OS gets a rare update, almost 22 years after it started — Haiku carries on the minimalist philosophy of BeOS, the pet project of one of Apple's ...

Getting around the OS The Haiku operating system is fast and responsive, just as BeOS was back in the day. The kernel is based on the open-source NewOS, which is a 32-bit preemptive multitasking ...

ZevenOS recreates the BeOS dock. ZevenOS comes with some software that has been specially written for it. Magi and Magi 2 are, respectively, system information and configuration tools that are unique ...

In hindsight, even though beOS was pretty good, it was the aquisition of Jobs that was worth to Apple more than the NeXTSTEP software. Or, as Gassée put it, “Jobs’s acquisition of Apple”.