Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
I&#x27;m glad to see Haiku is still making progress!<p>I really enjoy the visual style of Haiku. The look-n-feel of it seems better to me than any other UI I&#x27;ve seen, and I say that as someone who never used BeOS, so it&#x27;s not the nostalgia talking.<p>It would be really cool if Haiku was able to get to a state were it&#x27;s usable as a daily driver. I think having an OS and interface more focused on a single user at a graphical terminal rather than a multi-user system with graphics tacked on would be positive.<p>BeFS also has some really great ideas that aren&#x27;t replicated in other more modern FSes, namely it includes database-like functionality that enables some really neat features via a standardized interface, rather than hiding them away in vendor-specific file formats. If you&#x27;re interested, Practical File System Design[0] uses beFS as it&#x27;s example filesystem (and it&#x27;s also a really good book in general).<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Practical-System-Design-Dominic-Giampaolo&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1558604979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Practical-System-Design-Dominic-Giamp...</a>