Haiku hardware support is patchy. I doubt anything would have better coverage than linux on shitty hardware. I find UI to be the driving force - you get a GUI

Haiku hardware support is patchy. I doubt anything would have better coverage than linux on shitty hardware. I find UI to be the driving force - you get a GUI that interacts with the filesystem much more directly than you can in any other GUI. A problem I've found for workstation usage - the terminal has some problems. For example, I can't connect over ssh to a remote linux system and have GNU screen run there usably. There's a problem with the way colours are implemented. I understand they're workign on a tty rewrite before the beta but am unsure what the scope of that is, will it deal with this. I received a haiku programming book from amazon just today. I'm interested in exploring this and in digging towards the OS API - seeing what they do differently to unix. Maybe I'll find cool mechanisms for prototyping that aren't available in linux but I'm skeptical there'll be much.