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It’s really nice to try. I never used BeOS so I can’t compare. But wow, playing with an OS that is conceived as a whole product, with coherence in UI and para
by pjerem 3y ago
It’s really nice to try.
I never used BeOS so I can’t compare.
But wow, playing with an OS that is conceived as a whole product, with coherence in UI and paradigms. I haven’t felt this since the 90s.
Of course it’s pretty limited by the absence of application ecosystem but everything you’ve got is pretty clean. And it runs fairly well on a relatively modern computer for a niche OS.
- sillywalk 3y agoHaiku has both a "serverless XLib/X11 compatibility layer" [0], and a similar wayland one that takes Xlib or wayland API calls and translates them into Haiku API calls.”[0] so a lot of GTK+/Qt apps have ports [1], and the Epiphany browser(webkit) runs so you can use web apps. e.g. Libre Office, Inskcape, Gimp etc. *(edit) also it has WINE, so some 64 bit windows apps. I'm not sure how stable or full featured these are. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31167562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31167562 [1] https://depot.haiku-os.org https://depot.haiku-os.org
- lproven 3y agoI used BeOS, and I use Haiku. I reviewed BeOS in 2000: https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PCW%20200007%20July%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD%20%28No%20Cover%29/page/n50/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC... Haiku is lovely, but it is considerably bigger and slower than BeOS was. It's also vastly more feature-complete and has 10x the apps, but it's not as miraculous in performance terms, not by a long chalk.