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> What makes Haiku better for personal computing, from the end-user perspective? It is a clone of BeOS which was much faster/responsive than Linux or Windows a
by renox 8y ago
> What makes Haiku better for personal computing, from the end-user perspective?
It is a clone of BeOS which was much faster/responsive than Linux or Windows at the time (probably due to its use of multithreading).
It is an OS which target desktops, so it's a bit more integrated and coherent than the collection of software that Linux has.
But they decided to not use Linux/*BSD as their base kernel so they are in perpetual alpha/beta..
- pjmlp 8y agoThat wouldn't be BeOS anymore. The world already has enough UNIX clones.
- renox 8y agoYou're conflating Linux and GNU/Linux: if you just use Linux, you could create a non-UNIX like system.
- pjmlp 8y agoNo, I also mean the kernel design. We don't need yet another UNIX kernel clone written in C, replicating POSIX APIs. Modern OSes should explore safer architecture models with modern programming languages, not replicate 70's designs from AT&T world.
- renox 8y agoNewOS is written in C/C++ instead of C only..