Haiku - The Open Source Successor to BeOS (Overview & Demo)

I used haiku for a bit in an emulator. It's cool, but there's better things out there. This is for the low performance light users. And that's still great

Why the fuck would anyone use this?

nice

One thing that I really think is interesting that the HaikuDepot and ActivityMonitor is actually I think from a debisn system because is the ressourcen monintor and the synapic store from a Debian. I saw the 0ad and the other application at the start and directly new it was a sort of synapic store.

the 100 million dollar question is, can you game on it??

I would love to be able to use this as my daily driver

Former BeBox owner/user...

Guys. No. Stop.

I loved BeOS as much as anyone who had a chance to use it, but you all are wasting a TON of time and effort trying to keep alive the memory of a defunct OS that has been utterly surpassed and left in the dust by modern operating syatems.

BeOS had its time in the Sun, and in a just world it would have done far better than it did, but the world isn't just, and today a low-end smartphone/tablet is more capable than BeOS ever was.

Simple, brutal fact of life is Time never stops counting, and sometimes, you just have to leave the past in the past...

kwin used to support the tabbed multi windows model too, but sadly dropped it

Can it run Office 365 and Adobe CC?

Does it run in a virtual machine?

BeOs was a dream…

I love this, BeOS and Haiku remind me of some of the best features of Windows and MacOS (some NextStep features) all rolled into one!

when reading wiki articles of Haiku, I thought Haiku was a Linux distro (their logo looks like one)

then I back read plus BeOS, and like oh its own OS not Linux based

I like that 3.5" floppy disc wall, im envious now i want ro build one on my wall😂

I plan on installing haiku OS on a laptop, I mainly been running Linux for years and, want to try something different.

“If you have some BeOS software to run”. A near impossible scenario!

can you code in python on this os?

Haiku Beta 5 is out now if you'd like to take another look.

Have you ever used any form of SunOS, Solaris, or OpenSolaris?

I thought of it as Haiku OS because that's how I remembered it. Also, just Haiku in the search bar brings up the literature style and not the OS.

It looks like a windows xp with lesser bloats.

Would it be possible to do a video on Sun Solaris? Would love to see that!

The UI is really neat

You voice reminds me of Derek Banas

I ran it as try rather than install in VirtualBox. It didn't run smoothly...audio would glitch a little and eventually it would crash. But the first thing I had to do was download and play the Half-Life soundtrack...cuz 90s. I might need to tinker to get it to run right. The 90s window right-size rather than maximize was a blast from the past.

Watching this right after the ReactOS was quite an eye opener, just the difference in smoothness and stability for two in-development OSes.

Haiku is a really nice operating system. I have been using it on a dedicated modern machine since Beta 4 and I enjoy using it. It feels snappier than Linux and is way less complicated than FreeBSD on the same PC, so once out of Beta it could become the system of choice for people looking at moving over from Windows or Mac.

update idea (have not watched the full video when commenting so idk if it's there but I missed it) : a replicant of the pinned icon thingy would be SUPER NextStep/mac os like, I mean isn't a bunch of applications pinned on your desktop a dock. would be cool!

I wish I could get Wi-Fi to work on this

I call it Haiku OS because if I google only Haiku, it will present me with Japanese poetry

I tried Haiku once. Also, since in this video you have mentioned NeXTSTEP, actually also the default applications bar on the right side of the screen is quite similar to NeXTSTEP's dock. Always talking about NeXTSTEP, this OS is the ancestor of Apple's Mac OS X. In fact, since Steve Jobs's NeXT company was bought by Apple, NeXTSTEP became the base of Apple's Mac OS. For more about this, you can watch the Computer Clan's video related to the comparison of NeXTSTEP and Mac OS.

High key seriously interested in switching to Haiku

How do u get this ?? Is it good for old laptops.

Hopped over here from the BeOS vid because I've only used Haiku in a VM - saw this a lot on various messageboards and imageboards and last I heard was having extreme driver-related issues. Good to see how it's faring now!

How is the driver support for newer types of hardware ?

As a writer I feel like this simplified OS that also conveniently brings a little nostalgia is perfect for staying on task and focusing on my job.

This was a very good and informative walkthrough of Haiku.

The replicant feature is actually pretty neat

Oh shiiiit, that 3D sound mixer, I remember that!

I was in college and an upperclassman did a demo of BeOS for us in the lecture hall. We found it to be an incredible OS, especially compared to the Apple and Windows systems we were using for classeork and audio mixing for our production classes. The 3D mixer was a really popular application because we had to put a ton of work into mixib 3D audio pretty much by hand in Cool Edit Pro, our audio software.

Someone should take Haiku, rip the graphical shell off of it and put it onto a lightweight linux distro or FreeBSD. BOOM! The whole "linux desktop" thing would be solved, without resorting to horribly buggy, broken and dysfunctional projects like X11, KDE, Gnome, etc etc etc

Watching your hands flop around at the bottom of the screen was very distracting.

What model are the speakers? Thanks!

It's really an interesting project and I liked running it from the live USB on my old netbook. Unfortunately I didn't succeed to install it because the boot partition wasn't detected, I tried in many different ways to no avail even after reading the documentation and many reddit posts, and from the live USB itself I faced issues like my wifi adapter not being detected. I wish the best for this project and the developers and I hope more people can be able to experience it. I will try again in the future, maybe in another hardware.

About time you did a video on this.

Love these alternative OS videos. Forgot there were so many. Pity not many of these survived

Until learning you had to reboot after installing LibreOffice I was almost sold. 😊 Dear Haiku-People: Rebooting after each install is so windows, it's *PFLRTZZ!!1!* 😋
I hope this gets a lot more love and support for as much as I love my Linuxes, I think there should be more living operating systems in this world.

I call this "not-linux", because it is open source, but it's not linux

Any Haiku games? or retro-emulator?

How to install the HAIKO Operating System but I want to install it directly on the NotBook HD. I don't want to start with a pendrive or CD. How to do it I tried several ways but I can't. It is the same as Linux, I appreciate any help