Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive In 2024
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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…
  • @db2English
    5•1 year ago

    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.

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      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.