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Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024 (hackaday.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can but you won't like it in that role. Back when Be existed it was reasonably up to date, even had a then-current build of Firefox, VLC and a Flash player. To daily drive it today you have to be pretty dedicated.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They seem to have gone with something called Falcon instead of Firefox for some reason. Maybe because it's lightweight perhaps. I wonder what the hurtles are to having a full fat browser on the platform?

Edit: I found this that explains it. They have Wayland and lots of stuff ported but the Wayland implementation is still missing a few small bits to make it work. Very cool though.