This is not very long rašinukas begins a series of cognitive “really” alternative operating systems. Why does it? For Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS can be regarded as full-fledged operating system, which successfully competes with Windows and even drop by drop away market share. In other words, now the user can simply choose a computer store with any of the OS (I’m not sure just on FreeBSD). Certainly in this case the alternative would call completely different, strange and unfamiliar operating systems, with which, however, it is worth at least have access out of curiosity.
Name Haiku may be unheard of for you, but if you interested in computers a decade or more, it’s really been heard of its predecessor – BeOS. BeOS is now gone, the last release of version 5 is significantly outdated and bound to the various licensing and patent bondage. Haiku is an attempt to restore it and make free, free to use and a modern operating system.
Why is Haiku OS developers chose to base the development of BeOS? Their own time was considered to be the future BeOS operating system and have a very sophisticated file system, administration, and other powerful daugiaveiksmiškumą OS features. 12 years ago was still uncertain where to turn for Macintosh System 7 for further improvement. Apple itself created Copland system, but it may occur passage, began to consider the possibility of using Steve Jobs created by the team next operating system or other Apple emigrant Jean-Lousy Gassee BeOS operating system.
Next was developed based on Unix, BeOS – had its own unique kernel and file system. Both were full for the then head of the advanced System 7th It already came out that Apple’s Steve Jobs came back and later became the next Macintosh operating systems, as well as the current Mac OS X-based.
In inc. tried to sell its computer manufacturing beboxos (pictured) BeOS with, but the company’s sales failed to meet expectations.
In BeOS, despite the very advanced features, remained orphan. Later versions of the operating system for Intel processors was because the PC users have been more open than the alternatives and experiments closed the Macintosh community, which incidentally has had next platform for the future.
Finally it was over the fact that BeOS disappeared. From total oblivion by now it may just save the Haiku project, which currently is not yet complete, but you can download a trial version of the OS and the virtual test environment with VMWare Player.
What’s the special Haiku operating system?
Its core is specially adapted to a very large number of parallel processes and threads the number of teams. Even the interface elements have their own execution threads. This means that work with the OS is very quick – no interface elements “freeze” regardless of load.
Daugiaveiksmiškumas filaments and an abundance of haiku allows the system to maximize the use of additional processors. In the past, when personal computers had only one processor, it seemed worth a luxury, but now most systems have a multi-core processor, and Haiku is best to exploit the operating system.
Haiku BFS file system is very advanced, although there is still no “state copies (snapshots). It is very fast, has metadata system, which is an integrated text-file description of the vector icons. Files and folders stored in the structure B + tree approach with descriptors. A similar file system has been used in the Windows Vista OS, but Microsoft failed to timely prepare its widespread use.
If you want to try Haiku is all you need to download a file system virtualization program and run it. Haiku does not have a lot of new programs, but it is suitable for most applications written in BeOS. Because VMWare Player is very simple without risking anything to try this interesting operating system, it would suggest a weekend to do so!
