Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Is Keeping the BeOS Dream Alive

I have tried Beta5. It is awesome.<p>Excellent responsiveness, vastly improved hardware support and surprisingly large software collection. Lots of important software such as Libreoffice, Krita or Audacity have been ported, alongside webkit-based browsers.<p>And recently, they even got a Firefox port working.

I played with it, pretty cool. Actual, real, legitimate scrollbars!<p>Now I’d like an explorer type tree view. Where can I find that?

Holy shit. I&#x27;m actually typing this from within Haiku.<p>I downloaded the iso, flashed it to a usb thumb drive, put it into my T480 and it booted straight up.<p>Wifi works out of the box, the system is responsive, web browser is good enough for google and hackernews...<p>It&#x27;s the year of the haiku desktop. Only thing weird is how the trackpad works :D

I love BeOS.<p>I love Haiku.<p>I love them more than you do.<p>I love BeOS more than Jean-Louis Gassée.<p>If you already love and enjoy Haiku and an electrified loving and enjoying machine increased your love and enjoyment by ten trillion times, I would STILL love and enjoy it more than you do.<p>It (they) will amount to nothing more than a hobby project (which is ok, I suppose) until multi-user is implemented.<p>discuss.haiku-os.org: &quot;i Am ThE oNlY pErSoN wHo UsEs My CoMpUtEr&quot;<p>It&#x27;s about security brah. This thing is going to be connected to the internet, no?<p>You&#x27;re not smarter than the last 50 years of OS security development.