Haiku Os, The Linux Alternative · The Kernal
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When you think of alternatives to Linux, you most likely are thinking of BSD, MacOS, or even Hurd. One such OS that people don’t recommend nearly as often is HaikuOS. HaikuOS is an amazing OS that is based off of the old now defunct BeOS. I am going to go over the instillation, hardware support, desktop, and package availability for HaikuOS.
  • Kromonos@fapsi.be
    8·
    3 years ago

    I’m in love with Haiku. Just to bad, that I can’t run it for daily usage 😔

    • Halce
      3·
      3 years ago

      I could if they implemented screen rotation:-(

  • stopit
    3·
    3 years ago

    sorry to sound like an idiot…i did check Haiku’s website…is it Unix based? They don’t make it clear either way…they did say they had Libre Office…but…is it a unique OS? Is it POSIX? is it mostly POSIX? I’m all about trying new things, but I am also really comfortable with the traditional UNIX user space.

    • NFT screenshotter@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      3 years ago

      from what I understand haiku and beOS were UNIX inspired, with some posix compliance, but it’s not a unix-like or unix-based. Kind of like plan9 was.

  • const_void
    3·
    3 years ago

    Does the latest Firefox even run on it? BeOS was gone by the time Firefox was just being (re)born.

    • SudoDnfDashY
      7·
      3 years ago

      Nope sadly, Falkon works and was what I used with my time on Haiku. I think they also have qutebrowser.

      • DPUGT
        3·
        3 years ago

        I find it increasingly difficult to only use Firefox. Most of my coworkers are Chrome-only at this point. Anything that doesn’t at minimum do Firefox is a toy operating system. That said, I’m too unskilled to get something as complicated as Firefox to even build, let alone on a novel system, so maybe I have no right to gripe.

  • Wiggle Hard@wolfballs.com
    31·
    3 years ago

    In basic language cz im really dumb in concerns to tech, what does this mean? Sorry for my ignorance on the subject

    • stopit
      3·
      3 years ago

      It is an Open Source Operating System that you can download online and install on your machine free of charge, like a GNU/Linux OS, other than that I am not sure of the benefits or cons as I have never tried it yet.