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Dead means no development is being done on it, so it cannot possibly work on modern computers. The original Be presumably hasn't seen any development for decades, but Haiku is actively developed and so very much alive. It means it works on current PCs, and has the potential to become more widely used in future (which Be does not).

"Nearly Dead" != "Dead". It is possible Haiku could start gaining ground and become something widely used in the future, however it is more likely that the project languishes is relative obscurity before eventually being abandoned.

I've been following Haiku for a bit, it looks like development is pretty active.

> hardly anyone is actually using it

Source?

Kinda hard to prove a negative.