With a number of projects working on BeOS-alikes in one way or another and using some level of Haiku code, or at last intending to, running on alternate kernels ranging from Linux to FreeBSD, the announcement of another one is not particularly odd in itself, but specific aspects of BNX make it quite unusual. Rather than an open-source kernel, like most similar projects choose, BNX intends to be a BeOS-alike running on top of the QNX Momentics 6.3 OS. And rather than use BFS, Silicon Graphics XFS is going to be the filesystem of choice. Haiku components will be used for the rest.

Most long-term BeOS users are likely to meet this announcement with cynicism, particularly the expected one year time period before BeOS apps can run - numerous other projects have claimed similar time scales due to the "time saved" by using a different core, and none have ever reached the stage that Haiku has, with many never making it past a demo application running, if even.

Those with very long memories may remember that the tech media of the late 1990's/2000 regularly compared QNX and BeOS on the desktop as being "rivals" to each other and to Windows, despite the QNX desktop incarnation being intended as a development enviroment for its imbedded incarnations. No such rivalry truely existed, but its an interesting turn of fate that people are intending to "clone" BeOS on QNX.m