Guess the OS

[claydoh]

Not a distro, btw.


A wonderful, amazing, and ultimately a completely useless operating system.

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[benny_fletch]

Haiku OS... the U with the feather gave it away.

[dibl]

Why useless? Just curious -- I've heard of it but don't know anything about it.

[woodsmoke]

I actually got it to install some time ago, but could not get wireless working and printer setup was very "manual".

And, also I just didn't like the interface very much.

But, I'll give props to anybody that is trying to do something.

woodsmoke

[claydoh]

Why useless? Just curious -- I've heard of it but don't know anything about it.

I say that as a fan - I came this close to jumping to BeOS as my break from windows. Haiku has been a careful, faithful recreation of this OS.

Luckily, there is some wireless decent support in the nightly builds, with WPA, if you have Intel and maybe Atheros cards, but as an OS it simply is not going anywhere or doing anything new. It is stuck in 2001. Even most of the software is from that era - though a new web browser, Web Positive, is rather good.

[SecretCode]

Haiku is very cool.

But I don't know how much you can actually get done in it ... browsing the web, probably mail.

I'll switch to Haiku when there are too many viruses floating around on Linux!

[jpenguin]

HiakuOS is pretty neat, but theres not much for it as of now; and I absulutly hate the desktop theme.


BTW-- Anyone remenber this?




BTW2-- Can you name this OS?

[claydoh]

Why useless? Just curious -- I've heard of it but don't know anything about it.

It is useless in that it is a direct clone of BeOS, a desktop OS from 12 years ago. It can't do a heck of a lot as there is not a lot of the more complex desktop applications, even an office suite, however there is an aging Koffice port available. And wifi support in the daily builds only supports a limited set of chips. It is cool but these days nowhere near as nimble or rock stable as BeOS was in comparison to win98 back in the day. The Haiku community's refusal to perhaps innovate and/or improve on things will keep this a labor of love.

[bsniadajewski]

@jpenguin

I don't know about the first, but the second looks like ReactOS. No, I don't use it, but I've seen what it looks like from its Wikipedia page.)

[claydoh]

and lets not forget menuet, syllable, aros, and all AltOS's past and present

[jpenguin]

Yep the second is ReactOS; I've never used it either, but I've done some basic lookin on a VB install.

The first is an OS that dissipated after the creator tried to go commercial; it was called SkyOS