My dream is the Linux kernel with the BeOS/Haiku filesystem and display system on top. It could easily put Wayland to shame and gaming would be pretty awesome.
My other dream is Haiku having as much hardware and software support as modern Linux. Imagine running a version of qemu kvm on an os that already screams.
The filesystem is basically a database and files have associated metadata like a description or whatever, searches are nearly instant. The email app for example uses this, I’ve never seen anything even come close to how well this worked.
Under the hood it uses a server model for pretty much everything.
The programming APIs are elegant.
There’s a lot to it you wouldn’t have noticed immediately by just starting it and opening a few apps.
the big one for me is tagged filesystems. they exist on other oses but beos embraced them fully, and haiku does the same.
“music” is no longer a directory, but a view of your filesystem that shows everything tagged “music”. you want everything from an artist, or a year, or a genre? just create that directory and they’re in there.
My dream is the Linux kernel with the BeOS/Haiku filesystem and display system on top. It could easily put Wayland to shame and gaming would be pretty awesome.
My other dream is Haiku having as much hardware and software support as modern Linux. Imagine running a version of qemu kvm on an os that already screams.
Neither will happen but I can still wish.
It’s still somewhat early days, but you might want to check out https://v-os.dev/
I’ve also been playing with Haiku on an old laptop and it’s pretty decent as a daily driver for the basics.
Omg this is so peak gonna be my next distro hop fixation.
They are about to get a lot of github pull requests
Can you explain why are you fond of haiku? What are it’s strong points?
I had it in a VM, and liked the UI design. It was retro and unique. but that’s about it.
The filesystem is basically a database and files have associated metadata like a description or whatever, searches are nearly instant. The email app for example uses this, I’ve never seen anything even come close to how well this worked.
Under the hood it uses a server model for pretty much everything.
The programming APIs are elegant.
There’s a lot to it you wouldn’t have noticed immediately by just starting it and opening a few apps.
the big one for me is tagged filesystems. they exist on other oses but beos embraced them fully, and haiku does the same.
“music” is no longer a directory, but a view of your filesystem that shows everything tagged “music”. you want everything from an artist, or a year, or a genre? just create that directory and they’re in there.
Hmmmm. The tagging approach seems interesting.
Turns fs structure from tree hierarchy to graph hierarchy
its a very solid and user friendly gui/desktop oriented operating system