Any thoughts on Haiku (operating system)?

[brainwreck]

There seems to be some progress lately on Haiku. Brian Lunduke talked about it a bit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-tm7lxHDyE

I remember taking a look at it some years ago, but the alpha releases seemed to be creeping along ever so slowly. It's now in beta.

Highlights: Single user os; multimedia centric; responsive performance.

The sound system is OSS.

It might end up making for a nice os for daw purposes.

[Snap]

I tried Haiku a couple of times a while ago. It always felt as a promising OS, but lacking a lot because it was in early stages and always moving along sooo slow. It still is indeed. Very small manpower behind.

It's still looking like a 90s OS not only in the graphics side (It hugely reminds me my Mac OS 9.2!) That's good and bad. Bad because it looks anything but polished, but this is where the good part comes in. Those basic unrefined graphics will never eat up your resources. I love that.

The problem with this and other obscure OSs is commonly hardware support. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that this could be a show stopper for a dedicated DAW system. Also, software. I guess there won't be a lot of audio packages ported to Haiku.

Thanks for the reminder, anyway. I saw in the video that some nice stuff has been ported, like the full Calligra office suite (that I hugely prefer over LibreOffice but you need to bring KDE in on Linux. Not on Haiku... Great!) I really want to give it a go once again, and even already considering to replace MX for Haiku on my old dad's computer. He's 83 and needing something very simple and easy to use.

[cyrano]

It might end up making for a nice os for daw purposes.

Tascam had the same idea about twenty years ago. That's what got us the SX1...

I downloaded Haiku again, since it's been a few years since I looked at it, but haven't installed it yet.

Obviously, applications are the key.

[flowheimer]

I discovered BeOS around 1995 and got excited at the prospect of using it as a DAW platform.
It's been 29 years and I'm still hoping that someone will develop a music production app on Haiku; the (painfully slow) development of which I've been following since its inception.

Obviously this kind of move would require a sea change in the industry but a man can dream, can't he?

[JHughes]

I remember BeOS, or was it BSD? Anyway, the demo showed multiple videos running smoothly at the same time while Windows was incapable of doing anything close. It was exciting to see, but all these years later...nothing.

[Tranquil]

Originally Posted by JHughes

I remember BeOS, or was it BSD? Anyway, the demo showed multiple videos running smoothly at the same time while Windows was incapable of doing anything close. It was exciting to see, but all these years later...nothing.

No it wasn't BSD, it was brand new. If I recall correctly it was a candidate for Apple's "future" OS but the last minute they went with Job's OS from NeXT to what we know today as macOS. Nowadays some of the developers of BeOS work for Google's Fuchsia.