I've met the haiku devs, their answer is absolutely, and I don't want to misrepresent their reasons so forgive me if I misspeak, this was a while back. I belie

I've met the haiku devs, their answer is absolutely, and I don't want to misrepresent their reasons so forgive me if I misspeak, this was a while back. I believe they thought the graphic system was innovatively designed to be tightly integrated and straightforward to understand. I believe they also thought their audio stack, native file system and multitasking model was really great. I believe it's much more cathedral than Linux so ostensibly there's fewer interim layers and the ones that exist play nicer with each other. I'd guess this would be true for illumos as well but I am not going to pretend I've even looked at the source of either. If anyone says something in this thread that contradicts what I said, trust them over me. This was probably at least 10 years ago