Haiku R1/beta5 has been released (opens in new tab)

BeOS/Haiku window management is so nice. Nothing is quite like it, with easy and intuitive tabbed groups and snapping. Really unfortunate that no Linux WM stole that.

Tracker is very refreshing for me as a spatial Nautilus enjoyer (and it even work right across workspaces!).

A very well thought out and executed environment.

Fantastic work by everybody involved - they're really keeping the dream of BeOS and "small" computing from the 90's alive.

Pretty easy to install on a ThinkPad T480s. I had to disable Secure Boot and switch the boot type to "Both" instead of "UEFI" or "Legacy".

Trackpad/TrackPoint works.

LAN works.

Wifi works.

Graphics are accelerated (integrated GPU).

Some function keys work.

Speakers work.

Didn't try suspend/sleep/hibernate, HDMI, Thunderbolt, headphones, SD Card.

WebPositive seemed to hang when I went to SoundCloud.

What a pleasant surprise seeing dark mode get ported over to this. Always loved BeOS aesthetics and this improves on it!

Hope Haiku continues to grow as an alternative OS that can do more daily driver activities. One day I hope Obsidian can be ported to it.

It's a delight to see the Haiku folks keep BeOS alive after all these years.

I often wonder where we'd be today if Microsoft's illegal activities had been stopped soon enough for Be to survive. BeOS really felt way ahead of its time.

"There are now experimental ports of .NET Core 8 and 9 for Haiku" - that is an amazing achievement (I guess). Also FLTK (brings back some memories). How about Firefox stability? This announcment almost let's you imagine using Haiku as a daily driver for development.