When is a HAIKU not a HAIKU? When it's an OS

I've been messing around with HAIKU no, not the Japanese poetry of five syllables on the first line, seven syllables on the second line and five syllables on the third line HAIKU Project is an alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows or Apple IOS. Based on the former BeOS which was an awesome operating system which if you owned a Palm device around 2002/3 you may well have come across BeOS. Back in the 1990s', I was using BeOS as an alternative to Windows, so I suppose I could argue that my FOSS roots actually began there or was it with the Commodore I owned?

Rather than Red Hat 6.2, which I always tell people was my first foray into Open Source and Linux.

While I'm not a contributor for the HAIKU project, I have 'kept my hand in' over the years. I attended the HAIKU Project talk at FOSDEM back in 2020 and thoroughly enjoyed François Revol's presentation.

"That's all well and good, but what are you doing with it?"

Not a fat lot, really. I like the 1990s UI although in 'Look and feel' it leans heavily towards the XFCE and LXDE desktop environments. The one key benefit I would argue is it's fairly fast compared to modern Linux Distributions, hands up all those who remember back in 2000 chanting "MS Windows is bloated! Use Linux because it's leaner and faster!" today the Linux kernel has 27.8 million lines of code! and requires a minimum of 2GB memory for most of the mainstream distributions. 🤣

I been running HAIKU in various Virtual Box VM's over the years but thought it might be a neat idea to blow the dust of the Dell Mini 10 and install HAIKU on that so up in the loft I went to retrieve it: "where's that gone?" I thought. I then turned over the spare room, no joy. Searched our bedroom: "Where's that gone?" According to my daughter, it turns out that I gave it to a less fortunate Linux user a few years ago (I'm a nice guy really). "Ah yes, I remember now." so for the minute it will have to remain a VM usage only although if I can find a cheap 2nd hand Surface Pro it might be fun to put it on there. I can't use this Lenovo X201:

It's got a STEEMIT sticker on it. 🤣

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