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HaikuOS Version: R1/beta6 Released!

posted by mrcoolbp on Friday August 28, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
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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.

- (more about HaikuOS)

Downloads available here!

Please post comments on your experience with HaikuOS and the newest release!

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29, @02:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29, @02:26AM (#1452547)

    I like that it's one of the the only operating systems geared towards personal computing. The other OSes (Windows, Linux, BSD and mayyyybee, macOS) are geared towards .... well not that, and use for personal computing is just an incidental side effect.

    However, the screenshot in the release notes shows a wildly inconsistent interface. Different colors of grey, different fonts for menu applications, different scrollbars (some real scrollbars, some with the nasty little scroll pills that have taken over other operating systems).

    Has HaikuOS lost the plot?

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday August 30, @09:59AM

    by looorg (578) on Sunday August 30, @09:59AM (#1452587)

    However, the screenshot in the release notes shows a wildly inconsistent interface. ...

    It does? Where? I can't really see it. For me it looks the same as it always have, the same sort of BeOS Amiga Workbench look it has always had. Some windows change color but that is yellow/grey depending on if it's the active window and the scrollbars are dependent on the size of the window if they show up at the bottom and sides and such. I can't really tell if they are changing the colors of the grey between different images, so if you see that you have better vision then me. But it might just be that they are taken at different times, from different users that have different settings for what they like. So there might be slight colour differences.

  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Monday August 31, @04:58PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Monday August 31, @04:58PM (#1452699)

    I like that it's one of the the only operating systems geared towards personal computing. The other OSes (Windows, Linux, BSD and mayyyybee, macOS) are geared towards .... well not that, and use for personal computing is just an incidental side effect.

    Well, you've got a point there. Linux/FreeBSD and Unix in general was designed to be a multi-user operating system, that is why it has a lot of features that make little sense when you use it is a single-user desktop OS. Even then as a desktop they are more for "Workstation class" power users then personal computing for the masses. That is why the "Linux on the desktop" people have been dissappointed for so long now.

    However MacOS and Windows were very much for the "PC" world, because if they were not geared for that than I don't know what they are for (I guess "making money", but even then you have to have an actual use case to sell to people so they give you money for it).