Why “haiku” is being discussed
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Haiku has been in beta for twenty years. Haiku still doesn't boot on many modern systems. Haiku can use all the help it can get.
by publlus_enigma · Oct 31, 2026
I have been supporting Haiku financially for years, but sadly, it won't boot natively on any of my computers :( I really need to dedicate some time to understand why. I'd love t…
by publlus_enigma · Oct 31, 2026
Haiku is all new source, so they had to figure out how to get the binaries to run. I am not the POSIX expert, but I think it was just an API guarantee not ABI. There were severa…
by diskzero · Oct 31, 2026
I am greatly enjoying the juxtaposition of a comment asserting that obviously BeOS was so far from POSIX that Haiku had to do loads of work to get there and your comment that Be…
by tialaramex · Oct 31, 2026
> I wish that there was some edict from KDE Project management telling everyone working on the Plasma desktop to spend a week in Haiku or something. The other thing is that it s…
by ErroneousBosh · Oct 31, 2026
Would it partly be explained by Haiku 5.5? At work I am stuck with Claude, but I was always mindful of the cost of that thing. With aggressive clean session management and some…
by surgical_fire · Oct 31, 2026
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