Haiku UI port running on top of linux kernel

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Also JavaSwing, FLTK,TCL/TK, and SDL apps. and DOS apps with emu2 or DOSBox.

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I mean, yeah but like react OS is still in Alpha mode and it’s usually played inside a virtual machine with GPU pass-through you can’t really compare something that isn’t on the same level as haiku support especially since it doesn’t have GSoC program nor a level of community support with actual people who specialize in their OS they’re using or not to mention that most of the time haiku doesn’t need to be ran in a machine you could just like reboot it and back on topic they’re trying to replace Windows. Haiku is trying to be the spiritual successor BeOS hence why haiku is more developed than it

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Can it play some haiku games yet?

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I don’t know to be honest. You’d have to try. Since it is based on Linux there are probably some games you can play. But it is in very early stages, I didn’t manage to do that much on it.

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Yes its mostly haiku with the Linux kernel and custom Linux kernel modules to provide compatibility like messaging, node monitoring and file indexing.

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You have no idea what’s going on with ReactOS. They are running ReactOS on real hardware with modern-ish GPUs, with full 3D acceleration. Haiku still has the lead overall, but ReactOS is not that far behind.

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No, it cannot play any haiku games yet other than maybe demo stuff like mine sweeper or soduku. But the goal seems to port or recompile most of Haiku to start with.

It is a very interesting project, and actually runs pretty well, and feels like Haiku/BeOS which is very impressive. Personally, I have a little bit of a hard time with the mess that is the Linux file system underneath it all. It would be nice if they could move all of the top level Linux stuff into the system folder and make it as clean as Haiku.

Right now it’s Debian without X11 or Wayland. with real-time kernel patches. The guys behind it seem big on not reinventing the wheel and using the best wheels they can find. I can respect that. I wish them all the luck and I’m having fun playing with it. It might replace my current Linux distro when it matures. But not my Haiku I love it too much.:wink:

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i’ll give you that it did make a breakthrough about hardware acceleration but overall it is still unstable to even run on bear metal, it is further behind than haiku let alone it being stable enough to not run off of a virtual machine so it does clear the distance with it hardware acceleration’s but in terms of actual daily driving, stability and lack is behind which sort of defeats the whole point of having hardware acceleration and what puts it like third place compared to serenity OS and haiku but it is still a good operating system though

But one thing you could bring up about ReactOS is that it has over 88k commits on GitHub

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Hm then maybe I’ll give it a try

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ReactOS is very far behind because it is terribly unstable and I know nobody who use it for everyday use.

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Seems like HyClone still maintains its monopoly for both :slight_smile:

HyClone is not officially dead, it just need a huge refactor before becoming any more useful.

It’s a good development tool. For example, I used HyClone to test ARM64 runtime_loader before ARM64 Haiku was even bootable.

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I would not say it is horribly unstable, just a bit unstable, maybe like haiku beta1. (not the last release, but the dev version, saw it at CLT 2026 on real hardware, was quite impressed.

(Since i had no luck at all with ReactOS on real HW :wink: )