Haiku Is Such A Unique Operating System

Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the old BeOS operating system, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.

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[francesay]

FYI, virt-manager actually does have Haiku in the list of OSes, you just have to manually type it in. It comes up as "haikunightly." Hope this helps anyone else.

[SlideRSB]

BeOS was a contender to replace the old Mac OS 9 before Apple acquired NeXT. I guess in a parallel universe, BeOS went on and became Mac OS X while NeXT Step evolved into Haiku.

[dancinghost]

These type of projects are needed for soul satisfaction

[notuxnobux]

I remember a few years ago when I was porting my software (a c++ project with multiple dependencies including curl, libgit, etc) from linux to multiple os' and porting it to haiku was the easiest, it just worked without any changes and it was very easy to install the required software and dependencies. OpenBSD required 1 change and MacOS required a few more changes because MacOS doesn't properly support posix (and setting up the development environment was second to windows in annoyance).

[themisterchristie]

I tried BeOS back in the day and even then it was a pretty powerful system. Their promises were for a media centric os back then. Played with Haiku a few times since and it does look good.

[gerowen]

That combined, tabbed window thing is actually really cool.

[Kennephone]

BeOs always makes me super relaxed, I think it's cause of the 90s demo video, which is probably the most relaxing video I've ever seen.

[FloatingDogs]

BeOS was my daily driver for some years back in early 2000. Loved it! It was so blazing fast and did everything that I wanted. Also, their boot manager allowed me to make a BeOS/Windows/Linux triple boot machine!

[antskew]

I bought BeOS 4 when it came out and ran it at home for a long time. Loved it. Used to hang out on the BeGroovy forums and had a BeMail account.

[pauldacus]

YES! Thank you for even covering this really interesting OS! I "check in" and see how it's going (kinda like Perl6) at Haiku every few yrs.

[byb]

Just as I was thinking about it and looked the OS up, there I saw you having a video uploaded 10 mins ago. Live a century!

[sneekylinux]

Been playing with this for a long time now and it get's better with every release and is great.

[FrDismasSayreOP]

I remember BeOS machines being sold in my university bookstore. They looked soooo fast in rendering video and the desktop was so snappy. The only problem was there was no real software being developed for the platform, at least, not for long.

[sluxi]

I used BeOS R5 on my PC for a while in the early 2000s when it had still at least fairly recently been in development. Enjoyed it and the unique features it had. I've been following Haiku over the years. Recently installed beta 4 on an old chromebook and I've been working to use it for some of my personal document management needs because the BFS attribute support makes it awesome for that kind of thing.

[rhodaborrocks]

I stumbled across Haiku recently and did the same as you, spun it up in a VM and was impressed, a much better experience than I expected, it is indeed quite usable, it even has gcc pre-installed as was ssh/sftp so I was easily able to get stuff to try out from my other machines. To be honest I didn't know about BeOs in the '90s or I probably would have favoured it over the competition that was around at the time, it's a pity it fell by the wayside.

[rmcellig]

What a pleasant surprise Derek!! I remember this is fondly. It's a great os with some really cool features. Happy new year and thanks for 2022!!!😀

[stephenhall]

I learned more than I expected from this and your whole approach ---- therefore subscribed as of now!

[SkibidiSahurX]

Thats amazing for such an old operating system

[PenguinRevolution]

Hakku OS is a great project. I've always enjoyed it but I found it to lacking to be a daily driver for my uses. I hope development moves forward on this operating system.

Also I'd like to point out that if you use the 32 bit OS you can use the old BeOS applications without modification. That's a nice feature that they put into BeOS. However the 64 bit OS can't execute the old BeOS Binaries, you would have to recompile them to work with a 64bit kernel.

[CamonaTempest]

Great work Thank you and Happy New YEar DT 🥳🥳🥳