Haiku OS

Forget the shitposting, is it actually any good yet? Is it at least good enough for casual development and sshing into other systems?

>>57164974
It is actually really good. They have wireless now, which works perfectly on my T60.

What I'm actually excited about though is that they're porting it to ARM, which will be fucking amazing.

>>57165030
What's so exciting about that? For SBC use?

>>57165086
ARM boards (like the Pi) use a very small amount of power compared to their rather generous performance. If Haiku can provide a fully-functioning operating system for these boards we'll essentially see a whole other kind of computer in the world.

Haiku still uses very similar resources to Be, so those small and cheap boards would absolutely fly with their multi core ~1GHz processors compared to what was around at the time.

>tfw ReactOS will be out before Haiku

is it really fully functional now? i read about it years ago when it didn't even have a tcp/ip stack. does it have software and drivers and everything else you would expect from something usable?

>>57166141
Far more than you think. There's a web browser as well as wifi support, but obviously no flash and no javascript last I checked.

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I've pretty much given up on haiku. They're still using GCC2 and focussed on running BeOS shit (which practically nobody uses), while the system itself is still fairly unstable. Progress is slower than watching paint dry.

At this stage it's clearly a toy OS with no real future, which is a shame.

>>57166206
no js? is it some shitty in-house web browser? are there any major third-party packages/ported applications? i remember hearing that you should be able to compile most things from source anyway. is there any point to using it if i can just use a wm theme that mimics the look and feel?

It totally has JS. I'm using it right now.

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>>57166236
There's too many toy OSs around now. Haiku and Icaros are interesting, but they're just Memberberries.

The only one I think has a "future" is the ARM-based RISC-OS. There's a lot of ARM devices around now, so it's at least got a current platform.

Maybe Haiku could have had a place 5 years ago, when x86 was still at a majority, but that's not the case any more. We're all 64bit now.

>>57166714
>>57166236
I wish toy OSs actually did interesting things.

Like if someone made an OS that went with the hypothetical situation that we, for some insane reason, could never get above 80 column displays. But everything else advanced the same.

Plus people wouldn't expect it to be modern and it would be honest as a toy. Like FreeDOS.

>>57164943
>uses Haiku
Get it together OP.