I could be wrong on that, it's what I recall being told but I'm not 100% sure. In any case, there aren't Haiku forks, so there's still no confusion over which of a multiplicity of distros is good for what; there's just Haiku.
There are no AROS forks or Linux forks either.
Linux is the kernel, the distro is not Linux.
There are several AROS distros, although usability wise they are pretty much the same.