Haiku is among those open source os that appear to be both exceptionally widely known while flying totally under the radar. Part of this is most likely due to it being an open source variation and extension of the Be Operating System (BeOS). Regardless of its strong function embeded in the 1990s, BeOS never ever got much love in the larger computer system market. It has a strong neighborhood that after twenty-two years of advancement has actually now reached a point where you can daily drive it, according to the [Action Retro] channel on YouTube.
One point where Haiku certainly ratings points is with the super-fast setup and boot. [Action Retro] Shows this on genuine hardware, and we can verify that it boots really quick in VirtualBox on a low-end Intel N100-based host system. With the just recently presented QtWebEngine-based Falkon internet browser (previously referred to as QupZilla) even JavaScript-heavy websites like YouTube and retro Mac emulators work well. You can even get a Minecraft customer for Haiku.
[Action Retro] notes that 3D velocity is still a work-in-progress for Haiku, his 2014-era AMD system efficiently repeated 1080p YouTube videos. Not resolved in the video, Haiku is reasonably simple to port existing software application to, as it is POSIX-compatible. There is a reasonably modern-day GCC 11.2 compiler in the Beta 4 release from 2022, supported by strong API paperworkWho does not wish to take a poke at a contemporary take on the OS that almost ended up being MacOS