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By: Haiku alpha 2 still looks promising « Motho ke motho ka botho

Haiku alpha 2 still looks promising « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:17:40 +0000

[...] Haiku alpha 2 still looks promising Published 2010/05/20 Linux Leave a Comment The Haiku OS alpha 2 release did not go unnoticed here, and I gladly downloaded the USB-bootable version and tried it out a few days ago. I really didn’t mention it here though, because in my case, there wasn’t much that had changed. [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:21:42 +0000

I recently tried Haiku on a VirtualBox instance and it was simply a pleasure to use. I’ve heard people say the GUI looks “dated” but I found it at least as pleasant as the current version of Gnome. What I like about it is that it doesn’t bang you over the head with confusing metaphors and painfully slow but pointless alpha blending (ala KDE/Gnome).

Unfortunately, when I tried to boot a live CD, I got a “kernel debug” console with no instructions on how to report the problem. Linux’s kernel crashes aren’t better, but they are rare.

I have a couple of reservations though. First, I’m worried about the security model. Since it’s a single-user OS, how do you run a process in a contained environment? Second, since I develop server software, I wonder how I could really go about in testing and developing it on a Haiku box.

But still, I agree – wow. It’s beautiful and genuinely simple to use and understand.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:42:00 +0000

I have to agree. I think if Haiku “morphed” into something Linux-based it would lose a lot of its purpose, and a lot of its following. And then it would just be another desktop environment. Goodness knows there are plenty of those already.

By: vadim bobkovsky

vadim bobkovsky — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:29:16 +0000

No fraking way. Please keep Linux kernel for GNU stuff. Haiku’s own microkernel is much better for the desktop and boy, it will be even cooler over time.

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Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:31:04 +0000

[...] Haiku alpha: Wow. Just wow. For alpha release software, this is a very promising show. I like almost everything about this — the size of the installation, the desktop look, the clean way the system applications and desktop widgets handle themselves. If I can track down why the network was inaccessible I definitely plan on reinstalling it and giving it another whirl. [...]

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Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:14:40 +0000

[...] Review of #Haiku alpha http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/haiku-alpha-wow-just-wow/ [...]

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:19:08 +0000

Always wanted to try BeOS when it was out but never had the hardware for it. Gonna give it a try. I wonder why they didn’t think about using the linux kernel though, would love to see it as a DE in Linux.

By: shae

shae — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:12:50 +0000

This is actually something that is completely new to me as I never experienced Be. It does not look that dated, especially considering their goals! I think that they could make a really cool OS to try. I can’t wait until their stable comes out and plan on at least giving it a shot.

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:40:00 +0000

Haiku is the only one project that grown out from nowhere, and alpha has very much potential. Think about it. Beos shaked the OS world, and everybody says the same: BeOS was really nice, and powerful. But Haiku gains support from linux communities between the times of netbooks, then it could blow up again in base. So, keep fingers crossed, and hail to you guys! Long run, be grown to legend!

By: Duncan Snowden

Duncan Snowden — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:11:08 +0000

To answer both leosolaris and LinuxLover in one, the idea of the Haiku project is to get a binary-compatible clone of the last release of BeOS first (ie, it does have some legacy issues, but of a different nature, and a lesser extent), then update it to modern standards, rather than get caught in the same trap as, say, ReactOS, of chasing a moving target, which – given its small dev team – it may never reach. So yes, it does look like 1998; that’s the idea.

I should add that I have no connection to the project, I’m just an interested follower like K. Be always seemed like a good idea to me, but I couldn’t afford it at the time.