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.

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 ...

It may have disappeared a while ago, but the faithful have never forgotten BeOS, and Haiku, an open source successor to the much-loved BeOS, is getting closer to a finished product. It isn't ready for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--From my experience, the Windows design is limited and limiting. The largest file (so I am told) that Windows can handle is about 4GBs, or maybe a couple of movies. Windows 2000 was ...