Haiku is one of those open source operating systems that seem to be both exceedingly well-known while flying completely under the radar. Part of this is probably due to it being an open source vers…
You can but you won’t like it in that role. Back when Be existed it was reasonably up to date, even had a then-current build of Firefox, VLC and a Flash player. To daily drive it today you have to be pretty dedicated.
They seem to have gone with something called Falcon instead of Firefox for some reason. Maybe because it’s lightweight perhaps. I wonder what the hurtles are to having a full fat browser on the platform?
Edit: I found this that explains it. They have Wayland and lots of stuff ported but the Wayland implementation is still missing a few small bits to make it work. Very cool though.
You can but you won’t like it in that role. Back when Be existed it was reasonably up to date, even had a then-current build of Firefox, VLC and a Flash player. To daily drive it today you have to be pretty dedicated.
They seem to have gone with something called Falcon instead of Firefox for some reason. Maybe because it’s lightweight perhaps. I wonder what the hurtles are to having a full fat browser on the platform?
Edit: I found this that explains it. They have Wayland and lots of stuff ported but the Wayland implementation is still missing a few small bits to make it work. Very cool though.