For the last decade or so, I have heard much about the 'superior' BeOS. To this day, a successor lives on in 'Haiku'. Couldn't most of the feel of BeOS be achieved with the proper Desktop Environment, ...

Let it die. FreeDOS makes some (not much) sense because there's a huge array of legacy apps that run on it. BeOS was never used for much of anything, so that legacy is worthless. The fond memories ...

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 ...

Back in the mid 1990s, the release of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system cemented the Redmond software company’s dominance over most of the desktop operating system space. Apple were still in ...

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 ...