Haiku is an operating system inspired by BeOS and specifically designed for personal computing. Haiku is a very responsive operating system, based on a micro kernel structure.
It is written in C++ programming language and has very well documented API.
Some notes from the Haiku main website :
The key highlights that distinguish Haiku from other operating systems include:
- Specific focus on personal computing
- Custom kernel designed for responsiveness
- Fully threaded design for great efficiency with multi-processor/core CPUs
- Rich OO API for faster development
- Database-like file system (OpenBFS) with support for indexed metadata
- Unified, cohesive interface
Haiku is an open source project developed by a community of volunteer developers.
Haiku is growing very fast and a new Alpha release is expected very soon.
I am a huge fan of Haiku and think it will play a major role in personal computing in the coming years.
