Haiku R1 Beta 3 Released As Spiritual Successor To BeOS

[kvuj]

And how do you know Haiku is insecure? Have you audited the source code or something?

Because they don't have any spectre mitigations. They don't audit their source code. No sandboxing. No user password. Written in an unsafe language, but isn't formerly verified like seL4.

I think the devs also wrote somewhere that security is very far back in their backlog because of their lack of manpower.


As a fun exercise, you might want to try and compile SerenityOS from source. It's blazing fast, has a lot of apps, and takes design cues from the 90s.


As depressing as it is, I don't think Linux is going to leave the desktop anytime soon.

"It looks like Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."

— Eric S. Raymond

[Vistaus]

Like anybody would touch this insecure boomer OS even in that alternate universe.

He's talking about the past. Linux wasn't always so spectacular on desktops either - that's something from recent years. And how do you know Haiku is insecure? Have you audited the source code or something?

It doesn't even support Wayland.

Neither does Android, Windows, macOS, Redox OS, iOS, AmigaOS, etc. Doesn't make them any less. Stop your Wayland marketing.

I understand missing simpler times but whatever replaces Linux is going to be ten times worse and with even more corporate backing.

I for one love Haiku! I use Linux, Haiku and AmigaOS 4 and they are all great in their own right, but Haiku and AmigaOS 4 stand out more IMHO, espe when it comes to stability and performance (not that Linux is unstable and slow, but it's… well, I can't explain it - you have to try the others yourself to feel the difference).

[AHOY]

Had companies invested 10% of what they are investing in Linux, Haiku would have replaced Linux on the desktop a decade ago.

Unlike Linux this OS mimics other established commercial OSes in terms of providing stable interfaces and by doing so it respects people's work.

Like anybody would touch this insecure boomer OS even in that alternate universe. It doesn't even support Wayland.

I understand missing simpler times but whatever replaces Linux is going to be ten times worse and with even more corporate backing.

[birdie]

Had companies invested 10% of what they are investing in Linux, Haiku would have replaced Linux on the desktop a decade ago.

Unlike Linux this OS mimics other established commercial OSes in terms of providing stable interfaces and by doing so it respects people's work.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Haiku R1 Beta 3 Released As Spiritual Successor To BeOS

One year after Haiku R1 Beta 2, the third beta of this inaugural release of the open-source Haiku operating system is now available for testing. Haiku remains the open-source OS project going on two decades for advancing as the spiritual successor to BeOS...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Haiku-R1-Beta-3