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 Be Inc., ...

You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once ...

At the Southern California Linux Expo this past weekend, Google engineer and open-source software developer Bruno de Albuquerque gave a presentation about Haiku, a project devoted to creating an ...

If you think modern Linux distros are too complicated, Haiku is an open-source OS that aspires to be as simple and elegant as its namesake Japanese poetry format. While it's still in beta, if you have ...

In the second half of the 90s, a company called Be boldly entered the personal computing market with an operating system that was unlike any other. BeOS was highly modular and responsive, booted in ...

Just over 25 years ago, BeOS, a now discontinued operating system, had its final release. In the late 90s, it was considered by some to be viable competition to the likes of Windows and macOS, but it ...

Steve Jobs returned to Apple after a 12-year absence when it acquired his company NeXt in 1997. Under his leadership, Apple went on to reinvent itself as a leading consumer electronics company and the ...

BeOS was a much loved and highly advanced desktop operating system that ceased active development in 2001. ZevenOS is a Ubuntu 11.10 based system (with a bit of help from Xubuntu) that attempts to ...

In the IT industry where technology and trends are changing rapidly, there are many products and projects that disappear without spreading to the world, such as a modular smartphone `` By the time ...

Jean-Louis Gassée now writes a weekly column about Apple, but back in the day he was head of the Macintosh division under Apple CEO John Sculley. After his removal by Sculley in 1990 following nine ...

A disturbing trend in modern OSes is to abandon optimization code for multiple processors. Most operating system are optimized for the i686 platform by default, and 64bit compiles are becoming more ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Yesterday, the file system team from the OpenBeOS Project ...