I’ve installed and played with the nightly builds a dozen times over the last couple of years. I have been following Haiku for many years.
Media subsystem improvements, including better streaming support, HDA driver improvements, and FFmpeg decoder plugin improvements.(Please note that Haiku is a passion project and all the devs are part-time, so some they can’t spend as much time working on Haiku as they would like.) New Features in Haiku Beta ReleaseĪ number of new features have been introduced since the release of Alpha 4.1. Like FreeBSD, there is a “single team writing everything from the kernel, drivers, userland services, toolkit, and graphics stack to the included desktop applications and preflets”. Haiku comes with a kernel that have been customized for performance. Why Haiku?Īccording to the project’s website, Haiku “is a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn, and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels”. Haiku is completely written from scratch and is compatible with BeOS. The name is a reference to reference to the haikus used as error messages by many of the applications.
The original name of the project was OpenBeOS, but was changed to Haiku to avoid infringing on Palm’s trademarks. BeOS was subsequently discontinued.įollowing the news of Palm’s purchase, a number of loyal fans decided they wanted to keep the operating system alive. Eventually, Be Inc was sold to Palm in 2001 for $11 million. Be tried to license BeOS to hardware makers, but in at least one case Microsoft threatened to revoke a manufacturer’s Windows license if they sold BeOS machines. The two contenders were Gassée’s BeOS and Steve Jobs’ NeXTSTEP. In the 1990s, Apple was looking for a new operating system to replace the aging Classic Mac OS. After BeBox failed to sell well, Be turned their attention to BeOS. Originally, Be Inc attempted to create their own platform encompassing both hardware and software. BeOS was created with digital media work in mind and was designed to take advantage of the most modern hardware of the time. Gassée wanted to create a new operating system from the ground up. Be Inc was founded by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée after he was ousted by CEO John Sculley.
Haiku’s history begins with the now defunct Be Inc.
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