

It’s a port, compiled specifically for Haiku. That said, it does maintain backward compatibility with BeOS.


It’s a port, compiled specifically for Haiku. That said, it does maintain backward compatibility with BeOS.


Well, Haiku’s drivers were ported from OpenBSD. If your machine doesn’t support that, it probably won’t run Haiku properly.


Probably not. The performance, stability, and software support are excellent; but it would appear that the security relies mostly on the obscurity of the OS at the moment.


Thanks! My experience so far has been excellent. I have noticed that web browsers and the video player are noticeably more performant on this setup than on my main machine, which is eight years newer and runs OpenBSD. However, SuperTux2 is unplayably slow, and the OS would benefit from some security improvements (e.g. a login window, filesystem encryption, implementing pledge(2) and unveil(2) or equivalents, etc.) – but considering it’s still in beta, it’s quite excellent!
You don’t have to do anything. However, under the circumstances, Proton and its ecosystem are becoming less recommendable.
My personal suggestions for alternatives:
In the UK (or at least my family), black cats are good luck.
I just start zoning out, and sometimes singing (if the environment is loud enough).