as the honey sticks
so do the Haiku's windows
structured, as the hive
In this thread we communicate about the development and usage of the Haiku operating system.
Haiku is an operating system designed for easy desktop usage. It's inspired by the now defunct commercial operating system BeOS. Haiku shares many similarities to BeOS, for example its built in graphicstack and design philosophy: Sane defaults. Meaning it's easy to install and use, no tinkering required.
>Features
- Easy to use and install (Graphical installation and graphical configurations)
- Support for most soundcards, network adapters, trackpads (Drivers taken from FreeBSD and OpenBSD)
- xlib and Wayland support
- Many linux/BSD software available on Haiku! Examples being almost all KDE software (Kate, Krita, Konsole), GIMP, VLC/mpv. (Haiku is POSIX compliant). Other examples are most opensource emulators and less demanding browsers as Falkon (blink), Ephiphany (GTK), dooble (Qt)
- Multithreated - Multiprocessor
- Elegant graphical environment (Tracker) including a snap and tab feature.
- Under active development, so gradual noticeable improvement as more ports and contributions are made
- Lightning fast
>Drawbacks
- Lack of hardware acceleration,
- Lacks popular software, examples being Firefox (port in progress) and Chromium
- No security
- Bad power management, no hibernation mode
- Under active development. It can have issues with some hardware compared to GNU+Linux for example
>Important links
https://haiku-os.org
https://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_64/
https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/uefi_booting/
https://discuss.haiku-os.org
https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html
>inb4 cuck license
