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Haiku R1/beta1 review - revisiting BeOS, 18 years after its latest official release

Haiku R1/beta1 review - revisiting BeOS, 18 years after its latest official release

Having experimented and used BeOS R5 Pro back in the early 2000’s, when the company that created it was just going down, I have been following with some interest the development of Haiku during all these years. While one can argue that both the old BeOS and Haiku miss some important features to be considered modern OSes these days, the fact is that a lightweight operating system can always be, for instance, an excellent way to bring new life into old, or new but less powerfull, hardware.
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