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HaikuOS is proud to release Version: R1/beta6. (release notes)
Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
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(Score: 2) by chucky on Friday August 28, @07:24PM (2 children)
When I saw BeOS for the first time, I was amazed. It looked beautiful. But where would I get any software for this? It came too late. I sadly reformatted the disk and that was it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Friday August 28, @07:36PM (1 child)
This mirrors my experience as well. I came from the Amiga. Saw BeOS as the option. Which later then became Haiku. Then realized there was basically no software support to speak off. It was extremely minimal. I'm sure these days you can get all the basic stuff you need, more or less. But as noted I think it's to late. They have something interesting. But it's sort of a dream. They are kind of like ReactOS, something. But not something anyone besides a very niche audience will ever bother with. If you can't even get normal people to install Linux what hope does Haiku have.
Every now and then I think that I should test Haiku again, there was a boot CD etc previous. It's nice. It's just now you gotten used to Windows, Linux or MacOS and there is just no point. It's nice. It's just not nice enough for the effort involved of setting things up, finding the software, getting used to the change. Which in some regard perhaps is a bit sad.
It's nice taking the screenshot tour on their page and notice how little things have changed tho. It's basically the BeOS UI, more or less. So BeOS was very ahead in that regard. I like what I see. At least in theory.
I'll see about testing it again some day in the future. I just would not hold my breath about any actual running it as my main OS.
Perhaps this could be security by obscurity. After all nothing much will run on it from other platforms.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Friday August 28, @11:39PM
I just flicked through the release notes and they have Firefox ported. This will suffice for 95% of my needs on a basic PC.
It looks great. In a world of flat UIs (sorry, UXs) where you dunno what’s a button or a text entry field, Haiku has kept to a textured/3D UI. It looks great to use, maybe I’ll try it on an old NUC I have lying around.