Haiku, an Open Source Continuation of BeOS (Wednesday, February 10, 2010) - * Edit 6/4/2010: Alpha 2 is now available for download at http://www.haiku-os.org/ Back in the 90's and early 2000's I played around with BeOS, an alternative operating system developed by Be Inc. The intention of BeOS was to be a desktop operating system that specialized in multimedia and competed with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Be Inc. even attempted unsuccessfully