🔮 The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (And Maybe It Was Right) – Desktop On Fire!
｢ Imagine: instead of OS X based on NeXTSTEP, we would have had an Apple system based on BeOS. No decades-old Unix cruft, no Mach kernel heavy as an elephant, but an operating system born for multimedia, elegant as a Lamborghini and fast as… well, as a Lamborghini ｣
behold, my #haiku #haikuos panasonic let’s note. I call it Haikubook. I bought this little notebook that is not made anymore from my first salary here in #japan. It is not super powerful but been my workhorse for couple of years. Recently I sold/donated most of my useless modern hardware but kept this and made it my bare metal Haiku machine. It is surprising how well Haiku runs on it, incl. touchscreen and wifi card.
✅ The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
｢ One of BFS's most important and widely touted features is its support for extended attributes. An example of the importance of attributes is illustrated with an example of MP3 files. Information fields important to an MP3 file would be: song title, band, album, release date, encoding rate, length, number of times played ｣
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/