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BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith

Posted by timothy on from the still-want-a-be-box-led-meter dept.

kokito writes "OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda reviews Haiku, the open source successor of the Be operating system. According to the review, Haiku faithfully/successfully replicates the BeOS user experience and 'personality,' boasting very short boot times, the same recognizable but modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons, a file system with support for metadata-based queries (OpenBFS) and support for the BeAPI, considered by some the cleanest programming API ever. The project has also recently released a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain, clearing the way for bringing up-to-date ports of multi-platform apps such as Firefox and VLC, and making it easier to work on Haiku ports in general." (More below.) "In spite of its pre-alpha status, Haiku seems to be pretty stable. If you would like to give it a try, nightly builds are available from the Haiku Files website, both as raw HDD and VMWare images. Or if you happen to be in the Los Angeles area, you could also take a peek at a Haiku demo during the upcoming Southern California Linux Expo (Feb. 21 & 22), where Haiku will be exhibiting in booth #4."

2 of 448 comments (clear)

  1. Haikus always do! by nixish · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Haikus always do! First!

  2. Re:Doesn't impress me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. BeOS was in the back day quite complete. In comparison to Windows which was the suxx0rz, Mac OS which was OS 9 back then, which was the suxx0rz, and Linux, which you had to be a 1337 h4x0r just to get booted up, and which although much better today is still very much the suxx0rz, BeOS was easy, quick, and quite full featured. You don't need a googolplex of terabytes of code to implement the features that most people need out of a computer. Unfortunately everyone in the Windows, Limux, and Mac world have totally forgotten what it means to shave cycles and operate in a memory-efficient manner. So all of those operating systems are the suxx0rz. FreeBSD is not the suxx0rz though. FreeBSD rocks and so does BeOS. I haven't tried Haiku yet but if it's anything like BeOS which totally rocked than it will be very very cool. BeOS is NOT the suxx0rz. FreeBSD is NOT the suxx0rz. Linux Windows and Mac are the totally suxx0rz. All of the preceding is proof that you have no clue what your talking about.