Haiku OS - What Is It?

Haiku is a free and open-source operating system compatible with the Be Operating System (BeOS). Its development began in 2001 and has been in alpha for many, many years. The first beta (Beta 1) was released a couple months ago. I will check it out in a VM.

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[PearComputingDevices]

I was am early developer for both BeOS and Haiku. I still own a Power Mac 7600 I used to run run BeOS on back in the day. Very awesome operating system. It was also very fast even on that hardware. Haiku on the right hardware is very fast and stable. But that's also kind of key. I even still own a BeOS bible. I enjoyed the fact you could run dual CPUs right out of box, threaded. BeOS was ahead of it's day.

[baseballguy]

BeOS was way ahead of it's time. I ran it on an old Macintosh 7600 back in the 90's and it was mind blowing fast. It blew away the old Mac OS, it was ridiculous. The Be team thought they had Apple over a barrel but they underestimated the NeXT team. Apple ultimately made the right choice. It took years, but the BSD foundation was the future. I'm not a code warrior, but it sure seems to me the BeOS should have been a lot more valuable than a left over Desktop OS.

[GavinFreeborn]

Just wanted to say you are one of if not my favorite Linux youtube. You are awesome at listening to your fans without getting boring and following every trend. Keep up the good work man!

[EnsueA]

Haiku actually makes me happy on a daily bases...no adware, no viruses, no extra woooshy crap to steal your cycles...just chugging along...

[WDCallahan]

Don't forget blender is also a video editor!

[AnonEMoose-mrjm]

I absolutely love Haiku's tracker. I like the idea of having a menu with all of my open windows as opposed to the task bar which takes up screen real estate. On Linux, something like Fluxbox with the tracker would be awesome.

[Yasharvl]

Derek, thanks a lot for the great presentation. It's a delight to find out about a BeOS based OS in 2018/19.

[biplabroy]

thanks for the detailed video. It is helpful. keep up the good work.

[EnsueA]

VLC needs to be ported for the Haiku OS....?!?!

[cthedosboss]

thanks DT i will look in this os looks really cool :)

[abucketofelves]

Backgrounds is just below appearance in the menu there

[Tuishimi]

I used to eat, drink and sleep BeOS. *sigh*

[Tuishimi]

BeOS / Haiku has other interesting features. BFS (Be File System) for example is pretty amazing and applications like Mail use it to store email in a text file along with the meta data in a separate file thread... it is almost database like in nature and you can query attributes dynamically in applications, or at the terminal level.

Also, tabbed windows. You can drag them to the bottom and align them as tabs that you can then click on and show... cool things like that. BeOS was amazing.

[sudipchatterjee]

About time, DT, for you to have a look at it. Well done!

[sandrodellisanti]

in 2002 i was into the openBeOS Creative Team, this was nice..

[ant.upptech]

Well, ReactOS now and for a lomg time already targets NT5.2, which is XP/Server 2003 and thus is newer than W2K - NT5.0, and of course, it's not Win98.

[stutavagrippa]

I would recommend that the Haiku developers check for if the computer is good enough to install.

[TheSulross]

Really would like to see a leaner, meaner UNIX-like OS with a very friendly, fast and highly responsive GUI. That would run fast on older Pentium hardware. And looks like Haiku is exactly that OS. Looks like they have strived to incorporate BSD drivers - makes sense to leverage device drivers from an existing, mature OS, but would seem to make more sense to strive after compatibility with Linux device drivers, as Linux, of course gets a lot of development resource love (far more so than BSD). May be some licensing or technical matters going on their, so will need to investigate. But imagine if Haiku could use USB, WiFI, file system, video card drivers from Linux? That would give it a tremendous leg up. Then strive for good POSIX API compliance and even maybe some compatibility to Linux-only APIs, and some kind of XWindows library - would make it easier to port over Linux desktop applications. All in all, this is one of the most interesting alternative OS outside of Windows, OSX, Linux, or BSD - and given all the retro love around theses days, that it's appearance evokes that sensibility is really a plus.

[lorenzocabrini]

Hold on there. What do you mean "way back in the 90s"? I remember the 90s like it was yesterday.

[karmaduq]

Are you not aware of the stack and tile window features? Missed out, because they're a big part of why everything looks like a tab.