Haiku – a spiritual successor to BeOS – is updated
Haiku is a spiritual successor to BeOS, with a focus on a clean and user-friendly design paired with low system requirements.
After about a year and a half since the last beta, Haiku R1/beta5 has been released after 18 months of work.
The list of new software ports includes .NET, GDB, and FLTK, as well as multiple KDE and GTK apps. Other notable changes in Haiku R1 Beta 5 include a rewritten FAT driver, read-only support for UFS2, improved versions of the strace and profile tools, a TUN/TAP network driver, as well as basic support for USB audio device input/output. Sadly, more advanced USB 2.0 audio devices are not supported at this time. NotebookCheck
The minimum system requirements are still an Intel Pentium II/AMD Athlon CPU or better, at least 384 MB RAM, an 800×600 screen, and at least 3GB storage. It works on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 PCs, and the 32-bit version can run many unmodified BeOS applications.
It might be the best desktop open-source operating system not based on Linux or Unix… It works well in a virtual machine like VirtualBox or UTM.
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