[OhMeadhbh]

Was just explaining to my offspring about how Apple was looking to buy Be Inc. back before Jobs returned and they allowed themselves to be bought by NeXT. Sort of a fun complete-circle: Be ports BeOS to PowerMacs, Apple passes on buying Be, Be Inc. fades into the distance, HaikuOS kicks off, 20+ years later they port HaikuOS to Apple hardware.

Honestly... my problem with Apple laptops isn't the hardware, it's the crappy version of XNU/Darwin/NextStep that comes with them. I would buy a Mac if it came with HaikuOS and supported all the peripherals. But what is the chance of that?

FWIW... I still have a powermac with "real" BeOS on it. Haven't booted it in several years. I did look at HaikuOS running on an X86-64 VM and for the tasks I gave it (compile a few package, run emacs, serve a web page or two) it worked like a champ. I think the developer docs could use some help, but maybe I should volunteer to help them out.

[Tagbert]

FYI it was Apple that bought a struggling NeXT.

[levl289]

> it's the crappy version of XNU/Darwin/NextStep that comes with them

What's the issue(s)?

[OhMeadhbh]

Performance, memory efficiency, some security nits (but compared to Leenucks, it's not that bad), bug fix cadence (there's a bug I filed against NeXTStep 2.2 in 1993 that was finally fixed in 2015), support (they keep changing their mind whether the command line tools are supported.)

[commandersaki]

Is there a resilient market for people using NeXTStep in the 21st century?

[LeFantome]

I imagine he means it was fixed in macOS.

[OhMeadhbh]

Yup. There's a reason that all the AppKit classes start with 'NS'.