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The Haiku operating system, based on BeOS (www.haiku-os.org)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As I understand, it's aiming to be binary compatible with BeOS. It is a reimplementation and thus it is not based on BeOS (cf. ReactOS is also not based on Windows, but a reimplementation). However, for implementation, it partly uses code from Linux and BSD projects.