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posted by mrcoolbp on Friday August 28, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the something-for-both-Haiku-users dept.

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: 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).

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