Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

whether you haven’t heard of Haiku by now, it’s probably for good reason: as of a year ago, the OS could barely connect to the Web, and certainly wasn’t anywhere close to replacing your Linux build of choice. Luckily the open source replacement for the gone-but-not-forgotten BeOS of yore is maturing nicely, and it just had a bit of a coming out party at the Southern California Linux Expo that last weekend. There are still plenty of glitches to iron out, with applications like Firefox crashing and glitching frequently, and a shortage of hardware support, but the core elements

of BeOS are there and just as lovable as ever. For instance, that few second start instance never gets old, same for that 60MB disk image, and the most excellent processor utilization. Check out the in-depth preview on Ars for a better view of the past future (or is it future past?) of operating systems, or just download the latest nightly on Haiku to find out for yourself.

[Via Ars Technica]

 

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Orginal post by Paul Miller