Haiku Os

[mahesh2k 0]

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<h1 class="title">What is Haiku?</h1> Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels.

 

Source : https://www.haiku-os.org/

Last update of BeOS 5 as per their website is December 2001. Since last 8 years it is not in active development. Also it doesn't run properly on modern machines. There are some patches available for it. But hardly it'll work with recent machines. Also running on virtual machine like vmware, virtualbox is also not possible. As most virtual machine software creators don't support BeOS anymore. So only alternative today is HaikuOS. Haiku OS is BeOS clone and developed actively. Haiku OS works with openBFS file-system which is database like and support metadata. Like BeOS, Haiku is also focused on personal computing than server usage. It is also simple to use and interface is inspired by BeOS.

 

You can check the slideshow page to see, how haiku OS works. Check their blog for more information and to look at alpha development of current version. HaikuOS is also actively develpoed and maintained. It was part of Google's summer of code projects. And it shows active development of project. For more information you can check out HaikuOS project page.

 

[takerraj 0]

What's new in this O.S. Is it another Ubuntu or a tough slackware?

[mahesh2k 0]

What's new in this O.S. Is it another Ubuntu or a tough slackware?

Haiku is based on BeOS. BeOS is another OS which was discontinued after year 2000. And haiku project was created as BeOS clone. And No, it is not Ubuntu or slackware. You can read more about Haiku OS here.

[wutske 0]

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Last update of BeOS 5 as per their website is December 2001. Since last 8 years it is not in active development. Also it doesn't run properly on modern machines. There are some patches available for it. But hardly it'll work with recent machines. Also running on virtual machine like vmware, virtualbox is also not possible. As most virtual machine software creators don't support BeOS anymore. So only alternative today is HaikuOS. Haiku OS is BeOS clone and developed actively. Haiku OS works with openBFS file-system which is database like and support metadata. Like BeOS, Haiku is also focused on personal computing than server usage. It is also simple to use and interface is inspired by BeOS.

 

You can check the slideshow page to see, how haiku OS works. Check their blog for more information and to look at alpha development of current version. HaikuOS is also actively develpoed and maintained. It was part of Google's summer of code projects. And it shows active development of project. For more information you can check out HaikuOS project page.

 

The major problem with BeOS was that even at the end there were only a few programs available making it a rather useless operating system imho.

[mahesh2k 0]

The major problem with BeOS was that even at the end there were only a few programs available making it a rather useless operating system imho.

Agree. Some problems related to BeOS were lack of applications, lack of users and business model for operating system. Why lack of applications ? Very few developers find it learning curve easy enough to create applications for BeOS. Also Mac and Windows were dominant in the market it was hard for BeOS to attract more users. This lack of users also crated issue for sponsors and developers on system to generate business model for the operating system.

HaikuOS on the other hand is promoted in much better way than BeOS. Maybe, because of it's opensource model. Perhaps. Also there are plenty of applications developed so far for haiku OS. These things are in favor of popularity of Haiku OS. I expect more buzz from haikuOS. Let's see, and i'm confident about Haiku that it'll not die like BeOS. Not now atleast.

There is one more operating system which is at the end of it's life-time. If you're interested take a look at SkyOS.

[takerraj 0]

Safety and application availability are the most important aspects of an operating system to be successful. Already this operating system market is full of competition and I think there is no room for this Haiku OS, unless and until it has something that all other OS don´t have.

Edited September 27, 2009 by takerraj (see edit history)

[mahesh2k 0]

Safety and application availability are the most important aspects of an operating system to be successful. Already this operating system market is full of competition and I think there is no room for this Haiku OS, unless and until it has something that all other OS don´t have.

Not exactly. Not all operating systems are targeted at common users. Symbian on mobile is targeted for mobiles only or for embedded devices. Gnu-step which is maintained by GNU have it's own userbase. So we can't say based on our usage that haiku-os will survive or not. One more example is FreeDOS, Why it is alive ? DOS is way dead but still freeDOS was developed in the days of Winsows XP and MacOSX ,isn't it ? Is it because of market ? User-base ? NO. It was resurrected cause there was dedicated users who like that OS and want to see such project to be continued. So that's why they create their own forks to keep operating system alive. And that's why market competition is subjective.

Haiku-OS is not competition with Linux or windows clones. It is resurrection of Be-OS architecture. So those who wanted to keep BeOS architecture alive will use it irrespective of applications and financial support. This is the age of open-source, projects will not die like BeOS which died earlier. As source-code remains on internet, people will continue to develop and use abandon OS projects if they find it interesting.

[manuleka 0]

an OS main and maybe sole purpose is a layer for Application Software to work on or link with the hardware... so if an OS doesn't have many applications built to play on it then it's just another useless OS...

Edited March 13, 2012 by manuleka (see edit history)