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by pakyr 5y ago
Haiku, Inc. is a nonprofit.[1] [1] https://www.haiku-inc.org/about/
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by pakyr 5y ago
This post on the Haiku website explains what's going on, and how to upgrade to Beta 3: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-06-22_important_change_re...
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by pakyr 5y ago
There are two unofficial and incomplete hardware compatibility lists: https://sites.google.com/view/haiku-computer-list-beta2 https://besly.de/index.php/en/hardware/unofficel-compatibili.
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by pakyr 5y ago
I'm not actually sure how recent this is. Clicking through the Wayback Machine for their FAQ ( http://web.archive.org/web/20150813135145/https://www.haiku-... ), it looks like they've shipped the
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by pakyr 5y ago
I'd say iffy on the first. The native browser is based on a modern port of WebKit, but it's buggy and not feature-complete. Things like Youtube work in-browser, but not well (buggy player, sometimes choppy playback, etc.). Wasm do
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by pakyr 5y ago
It's not my 'position' that there's a list of hardware; there literally is one (edit: and it's not exhaustive). I really don't see how Haiku "requires" you to take it seriously. It's clearly mark
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by pakyr 5y ago
The FreeBSD 13 reference is probably because Haiku uses FreeBSD drivers for most of its network drivers via a compatibility layer.
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by pakyr 5y ago
Like I said, it sucks that it doesn't start on anything you own, which doesn't take away from the fact that there's literally a massive list of hardware it does actually run on. And you're right, I created an account t
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by pakyr 5y ago
It's fine to dislike Haiku because it doesn't run on your hardware, but it's pretty ridiculous to assert it isn't an OS because it "can't run on an actual computer". Haiku runs on tons of hardware, inclu
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by pakyr 5y ago
That's only on the 32 bit version, and even there they also use GCC 8.