Astounding Progress Made In Porting Wine To Haiku For Running Windows Software

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Astounding Progress Made In Porting Wine To Haiku For Running Windows Software

Haiku as the open-source operating system in development for two decades as the inspirational successor to BeOS is kicking off 2022 by.... beginning to be able to run Windows applications via Wine. There is great progress being made in porting Wine to running on Haiku...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-On-Haiku-Starts-2022

[scottishduck]

Year of the haiku desktop

[birdie]

Year of the haiku desktop

Actually the way HaikuOS is developed it's a lot more probable than the year of Linux on the desktop even though Haiku receives a one thousandth of resources poured into it.

[kiffmet]

Doesn't Haiku run everything as root? Can't wait for Ransomware to hit the platform via WINE…

[user1]

Actually the way HaikuOS is developed it's a lot more probable than the year of Linux on the desktop even though Haiku receives a one thousandth of resources poured into it.

One way I think Haiku can potentially be more successful than Linux on the desktop is because it doesn't have a gazillion ways to distribute packages, with each way having its own share of downsides (fixed release, rolling release, PPA's Snaps, Flatpacks, etc). I mean I was lately thinking about it and tbh the package distribution situation on Linux is kinda dire imo if you compare it to other operating systems.

[NateHubbard]

What this OS needs
Is to run Windows software
To make it unique

[awesz]

Actual progress on the actual alternative to Windows and macOS.

[NateHubbard]

Actual progress on the actual alternative to Windows and macOS.

I'm curious how you arrived at that conclusion. I've seen it as mostly just another failed alternative OS.
Hell, it was a failure the first time around 20+ years ago.

[rmfx]

One way I think Haiku can potentially be more successful than Linux on the desktop is because it doesn't have a gazillion ways to distribute packages, with each way having its own share of downsides (fixed release, rolling release, PPA's Snaps, Flatpacks, etc). I mean I was lately thinking about it and tbh the package distribution situation on Linux is kinda dire imo if you compare it to other operating systems.

Yep.
If gnu / linux / freedesktop was merged into one foundation that agrees on ONE OS, made the best possible, with high quality unified tech, it could be the most used desktop OS in the world.
Bit everyone fight for its land so in the end, it’s a engineer fantasy.

[Vistaus]

What this OS needs
Is to run Windows software
To make it unique

Even as a long-term Linux user, I have one Windows app that I use frequently. I really like where Haiku is going, so a full-time switch at some point means that I do need Wine. I don't care about being unique, I just want a good OS that runs software that I actually use.