Haiku R1/beta5 has been released

BeOS&#x2F;Haiku window management is so nice. Nothing is quite like it, with easy and intuitive tabbed groups and snapping. Really unfortunate that no Linux WM stole that.<p>Tracker is very refreshing for me as a spatial Nautilus enjoyer (and it even work right across workspaces!).<p>A very well thought out and executed environment.

Fantastic work by everybody involved - they&#x27;re really keeping the dream of BeOS and &quot;small&quot; computing from the 90&#x27;s alive.

Pretty easy to install on a ThinkPad T480s. I had to disable Secure Boot and switch the boot type to &quot;Both&quot; instead of &quot;UEFI&quot; or &quot;Legacy&quot;.<p>Trackpad&#x2F;TrackPoint works.<p>LAN works.<p>Wifi works.<p>Graphics are accelerated (integrated GPU).<p>Some function keys work.<p>Speakers work.<p>Didn&#x27;t try suspend&#x2F;sleep&#x2F;hibernate, HDMI, Thunderbolt, headphones, SD Card.<p>WebPositive seemed to hang when I went to SoundCloud.

What a pleasant surprise seeing dark mode get ported over to this. Always loved BeOS aesthetics and this improves on it!<p>Hope Haiku continues to grow as an alternative OS that can do more daily driver activities. One day I hope Obsidian can be ported to it.

It&#x27;s a delight to see the Haiku folks keep BeOS alive after all these years.<p>I often wonder where we&#x27;d be today if Microsoft&#x27;s illegal activities had been stopped soon enough for Be to survive. BeOS really felt way ahead of its time.

&quot;There are now experimental ports of .NET Core 8 and 9 for Haiku&quot; - that is an amazing achievement (I guess). Also FLTK (brings back some memories). How about Firefox stability? This announcment almost let&#x27;s you imagine using Haiku as a daily driver for development.