Hey guys and welcome to Nomadic Dmitry channel. Today we are going to continue discussing
alternative operating systems. Let's talk about Haiku OS
I'm going to run it on this machine. This is a ThinkPad T61
I initially we wanted to run this alternative OS on Mac, but it didn't worked. It caused a kernel panic
I really like this OS because it's not a Linux-based system
it's not trying to emulate Linux in any sense like
ReactOS for example does. It's just simply an operating system that you can try
and it recently entered the beta stage (Beta 2 released in June 2020)
I have downloaded the latest copy from the official website and I'm using it as a LiveCD
I'm booting from it and I especially like the Splash screen there
It feels very promising and you can see what's going on there
It feels old fashioned because I used to be seeing it somewhere or probably it was BeOS
where this kind of splash screen was used
I wish it worked on Mac because this splash screen is very beautiful and it will look great on a Retina display
I'm still trying to figure out how to run this on Mac. Alright, this looks
promising. You can install it directly on your machine and you can also try the
Live CD. This is similar how it's done in Linux distributives as well
Okay, so we have it all booted. Let's see what we can do with it
I want to change a desktop background, so I press the right button (assuming it's there)
And there is no such option there, we need to open the panel on the right side
Open Preferences -> Backgrounds
We can select it from there and change the color of the desktop
You can also configure the positioning of the logo
I like this style of the operating system
Feels a bit old school, but it's also fast and efficient
Let's go to applications and here we have lots of Apps available
Among those apps the Media Player is interesting
Let's try the media player. Very simple interface of media player and you
can just play in the typical files you play in the media player may actually
I like those colors, very colorful
In many Operating Systems (including Linux) the icons are not the best quality
But here it's nicely designed
"About Haiku" shows all the system information
I'm running this on Intel Core 2 Duo (2 Ghz) and 2 Gb of memory
It has the link to the official website and when you press it then it launches the browser
I don't have internet configured yet, I'm going to try it in a second
It was interesting to see that this WebBrowser is based on Webkit
This is expected and that means that browsing and rendering would be fine since it's going to be similar to Chrome
You should be able to run all your browser apps
right here in the browser which is great. You can have some use cases
for this operating system, so it sounds good then bunch of simple applications there
PoorMan is a web-server seems like, similar to Apache
Contact app is called "People". I'm going to add "Nomadic Dmitry" there as a contact
IconoMatic is used for drawing icons
Terminal and TV are other apps there
If you have a TV card you can also use it to display content
It's interesting, but why is it a default package in HaikuOS?
WebPositive is a name of a Web browser, although what's positive about the Web those days (I'm kidding)
SoftwareUpdater is used to update software
Terminal is also a powerful tool here and it has a bash shell integrated there (although it's not a Unix-system!)
It works like a typical bash that you find on a Linux machine
ls, pwd, top, cat, cd. All the commands that you would expect for a shell command line
You can use "touch" to create files (as usual)
"ifconfig" shows all the internet configuration info as expected
This system seems very stable to me, I haven't see any driver problems there
ReactOS had some problems, but this system is fine
It's interesting to explore the system and you can use it for a modern usage like web browsing and document writing
It has the potential to become a popular OS in the future since it's designed in a good way
It's also international and ready for different markets around the world
I also liked that the Wi-Fi works out of the box. You can just select a Wi-Fi network and connect easily
I've got the internet now and let's see how it works
I have opened the WebPositive browser and it works just fine here
It loads apple.com without issues here
It's a bit slow because it runs from a LiveCD, but at the same time it's going to work well when running from a hard drive
I also like the style of the Windows and overall OS style
Overall, HaikuOS has the potential and let's see how it works out in the future
BeBook has all necessary information about the system that you might want to explore
There is an installer app on desktop to easily install it on your machine
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It's always interesting to explore alternative Operating Systems and Haiku OS is not an exception
Let's see if it changes the market of operating systems in the future
Thank you and bye-bye!