Ars Technica editor Ryan Paul has written a short “first look” article about the Haiku OS. The article, which also features some quotes from Bruno Albuquerque, is a positive piece – especially regarding the progress & potential of Haiku:

Haiku also improves on BeOS in several ways. Haiku’s network performance is better, for instance, because the networking functionality is integrated directly into the kernel rather than running in userspace as it did in BeOS. Haiku also offers a source-level FreeBSD network driver compatibility layer, which means that it can support any network hardware that will work on FreeBSD. Haiku also includes support for modern hardware, better filesystem performance, and support for vector icons. Haiku has also improved POSIX compatibility in order to simplify the process of porting applications to the platform.

Not only is the article a good introduction to those who aren’t already familiar with Haiku, it’s also great to see Haiku coverage on a major tech news site – especially one as well respected (deservedly so) as Ars Technica (they also used to give BeOS a fair amount of coverage back in the day).

Category: News   -   Comments RSS   -   Post a Comment   -   Trackback

« Haiku one step closer to “Self Hosting”

Zebuntu-mini beta 1 is out »