25 Years of Haiku: From "Ok, Let's Start" to the Present

(desktoponfire.com)

42 points | by fork-bomber 3 days ago ago

7 comments

  • ColdStream 3 days ago ago

    Bravo! here is to the next 25 years!

    Haiku is the underdog that just keeps on moving forwards. Every release it gets just a little more complete.

    There is a vital lesson in Haiku OS. If you benchmark anything on it, it isn't the fastest thing around. Compiling code is about 40% slower than Linux for instance (which is still impressive). But the user experience is absolutely divine. It is the benchmark for responsive UI and it should be a mark of shame on Apple, Microsoft and many Linux desktops that they are being out done by such a small team.

    • johng 3 days ago ago

      Still the most beautiful OS I've ever seen honestly. I wish there was desktop interface for Linux that looked like it and worked like it.

      • trimble_tromble 2 days ago ago

        You might be interested in the Vitruvian OS project:

        https://v-os.dev/

        "V\OS is a Linux-based operating system inspired by BeOS. It brings the simplicity and responsiveness of a classic desktop to modern hardware: custom kernel modules and a BeOS/Haiku API compatibility layer that runs on Linux with minimal to no source changes."

      • lproven 2 days ago ago

        > I wish there was desktop interface for Linux that looked like it and worked like it.

        There was once:

        https://web.archive.org/web/20120119072030/https://www.linux...

    • idontwantthis 2 days ago ago

      Can you give me an example of something in Haiku that is a better experience than in MacOS?

      • iberator 2 days ago ago

        memory usage, extremely snappy gui,

  • pjmlp a day ago ago

    Happy birthday, I still have that original BeOS CD somewhere.