-- Posted by atlamp on 5:40 pm on Aug. 27, 2001 Anyone had a look at the OpenBeOS project at Sourceforge? It seems they are trying to develop a 100% BeOS compatible open source OS (by coding to existing BeOS APIs). Sounds like a very ambitious project to me. If BeOS is killed by Palm, then I can see value in such a project, but what happens if Palm revive the BeOS to its former glory? Just some idle thoughts while I escape from an extraordinarily busy day at work ... Cheers Andrew -- Posted by piBE on 10:31 pm on Aug. 27, 2001 Hi Andrew! OpenBeOS? yup, sounds like a light at the end of the tunnel, but, is it really "BeOS"? I personally dont like the idea, becouse its like taking the Linux Kernel or the AtheOS Kernel (i heared there is an openBeOS  project with this OS) or even a window$ kernel and make it BeOS compatible. That doesnt sound like BeOS, its more like dressing something as it is BeOS. Sure its a great idea to have an OS where we can run our Be Aplications, but for that we can just make an emulator! This new OpenBeOS OS sounds great, but i would choose another name, cos as i said that isnt really BeOS. See ya! -- Posted by atlamp on 3:31 pm on Aug. 28, 2001 Actually, does anyone know whether there are plans to develop OpenBeOS for the PowerPC architecture, or is this just an x86 thing? Reading their charter, which states: Any application that runs on BeOS R5 can be run unaltered on OpenBeOS I have to conclude that there would have to be a PowerPC version (otherwise, not all apps that run on BeOS R5 would run unaltered on OpenBeOS). Anyone have any confirmation of this? Cheers Andrew -- Posted by ithamar on 12:47 pm on Sep. 26, 2001 First of all, the OpenBeOS registered @ sourceforge as openbeos has not had _any_ activity whatsoever, and is the one which was planning to use AtheOS. BlueOS (forgot the URL) is the one using Linux as a base kernel, and only claiming source compatibility (ie devs have to recompile for this platform). The project I'm involved with is the "new" OpenBeOS, registered as open-beos (see my URL) and uses the NewOS kernel, see newos.sf.net, a kernel developed by an ex-Be, Inc Kernel Engineer. The kernel has partially been ported to the iMac platform, and if enough interest, should be portable to the BeBox as well. Hope this helps :)