Haiku is a free and open-source operating system inspired by BeOS, a system developed in the 1990s by Be Inc. that was admired for its speed and responsiveness with multimedia. After Be Inc. collapsed and BeOS was discontinued, a group of enthusiasts began a project to recreate it from scratch, at first under the name OpenBeOS, and later renamed Haiku. The system is designed to be compatible with BeOS applications, and features a clean desktop, a fast file system with indexed attributes, and a modular design. Its development has been slow, since it is a volunteer effort, but it reached its first stable release series in the late 2010s, and it is used by hobbyists and developers.
Before and after
- 11 December 2001Discovery of Aitne
- 11 December 2001Discovery of Pasithee
- 11 December 2001China joins the World Trade Organization
- 13 December 20012001 Indian Parliament attack
- 2002Creation of Haiku
- 2002Construction of Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- 2002Creation of Fedora Linux
- 2002Release of OpenOffice.org
- January 2002Release of Azerbaijani Wikipedia
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The era
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