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user-inactivated  ·  2031 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Haiku is still not quite dead

    I don't think a desktop OS without graphics hardware vendor support is ever going to find its niche now

The groundwork is kinda there. Haiku's strategy for troublesome drivers has been to lift them from FreeBSD. IDK if it works at the moment, since last I checked FreeBSD 11 doesn't support my cheapo integrated AMD chip.

My worry is more the resource dump that is modern web browsers.

    Thanks to the generous support of donors, Haiku, Inc. was able to employ a developer to work full-time on enhancing WebKit port and areas of the system relevant to it (which turned out to be nearly everything) for over a year.

That year was 2014.