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 ...

Huxley Dunsay of Retro Roadshow joins us in the PCWorld studio to show off the BeBox, a 90s dual-CPU PC with a custom operating system.

Haiku OS, a modern clone of BeOS, is an interesting look back at what Apple once considered to advance its Mac operating system. In 1995, Apple's head of Apple France, Jean-Louis Gassee left Apple to ...

Haiku is an open source operating system that’s been under development for almost two decades as an effort to pick up where the discontinued BeOS left off. But it’s been slow going. Today the Haiku ...

Earlier this month BeOS aficionado Scot Hacker, author of the BeOS Bible and generally all-around swell guy, wrote a rather lengthy essay on his exodus from the BeOS wherein he describes wandering the ...

I've always liked "minority" operating systems. I'm amazed at how economical they can be with resources, and how they cope with the diversity of systems that they run on. My first experience of Linux ...

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 ...

There was a moment in the years spanning the move from 16-bit platforms to 32-bit, during which it looked for a moment as though there might be a few new operating system contenders making a mark on ...

Back in the mid-1990s, there was one thing incredibly obvious to anyone using a Mac: Apple wasn’t ever going to develop a modern successor to the classic Mac Operating System. Despite screenshots of ...

Do you think Linux is an alternative, hobbyist operating system? Ha! Linux is mainstream. If you’re looking for the next niche OS, you’ll need to dive deep into the cracks and crevices: passion ...

A new ripper and music prep program from TuneTracker Systems is based on the BeOS operating system. It aims to make ripping and preparing music for broadcast a one-step task. TunePrepper rips songs ...