Trying Out Haiku OS

Well turns out that my dream operating system already existed about 10 years ago. It was called BeOS and it could have been what Mac OS X wanted to be. Apple was going to buy Be Inc. (makers of BeOS) but Be wanted more money than Apple was offering. So Apple bought NeXTSTEP and the rest is history. Unfortunately Be Inc. was bought by Palm then went into bankruptcy. Years later some BeOS fans decided to bring back Be. They started Haiku which is sorta like BeOS only with open source components. I really like it. It's a little slow (I'm running it in a VM) but it's really a good operating system. BeOS was a good operating system that died too early. If it would have survived I believe it would be a serious competitor to Windows and OS X today. What could have been... :(
http://www.haiku-os.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

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• be inc
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[Tununias]

@krazyliljoo94 this is about Haiku the operating system, not the poem.

[krazyliljoo94]

this video contains no haikus. ill continue to mark as spam until you rename it

[umccullough]

Pretty bad performance in a VM - for sure.

One major mistake there was running BSnow (which didn't even produce the graphical effect it was supposed to - with snoflakes falling down all over the desktop). That made the performance crawl thereafter.

There have already been major improvements in the last couple months - keep an eye out for the next major release ;)

[umccullough]

It's several tracks from an album called Hotel Coral Essex by Futuristic Sex Robotz. You can probably find a download for it at Rhyme Torrents or another Nerdcore site.

[ximalas]

What's the title of the music? Who wrote it and who performed it?

[LanHikari90]

I installed Haiku Alpha 1 natively. :) It's VERY good! Super fast, (and for alpha quality software) super stable! Everything works, EXCEPT my old CMI8738 based sound card. Sadly. I found a driver on Haikuware, but it doesn't seem to work... Well, I guess I'll just have to wait.

[MrCode]

Damn, BeZillaBrowser is so absurdly slow to load. VLC too.

This is why we prefer applications written specifically for Haiku. I'm working on a new browser that should be a better. And our native MediaPlayer loads much faster than VLC.

Of course Haiku still has plenty of room for optimization. We want it to be as fast as possible, like BeOS.

Anyhow, thanks for trying it out!

- A Haiku developer

[arthursucks]

Futuristic Sex Robots FTW!