New rEFInd bootloader theme for my laptop! It boots straight to The Choice. The Matrix is my favorite film of all time, so...

Running Haiku OS on bare metal, on two different laptops: a Thinkpad x280 and a DELL 5480. Everything works perfectly except the touchpads/tracksticks (on the Thinkpad it crashes a lot but it works, on the DELL it doesn't work at all). With a mouse it works great.

Haiku has certainly come a long way!

Comeback nach 18 Jahren: Cosmoe bringt BeOS-Erfahrung zurück auf Linux
https://linuxnews.de/comeback-nach-18-jahren-cosmoe-bringt-beos-erfahrung-zurueck-auf-linux/ #beos #haiku #linux

I really dislike the flat design that has come to overpower everything since 2013. I prefer the old iphone Skeuomorphism, pixel art icons from the '90s (e.g. #BeOS), and the new #neuomorphism (but with more contrast than shown in the pic). But flat design, no, thank you.

Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland: https://cosmoe.org/index.html
#linux #update #foss #wayland #beos #library #cosmoe

Just wrote about that legendary 2015 Hacker News thread where everyone got emotional about BeOS
The OS that was too beautiful for this world: pervasive multithreading, metadata filesystem, perfect multimedia... in the '90s!
But we got Windows because "it's already installed"
Full nostalgic damage: https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/

These BeOS themes look good-enough via XFce on my EndeavourOS installation. Reminds me of the good old times. Ah, these were the days...

My nephew (who is 19) really likes to investigate and dig into various topics. He’ll regularly text me things like “how much do you know about the Ebionites in early Christianity?” or “have you heard of a book called Slaughterhouse Five?”

Anyway he just texted me this (well, last night, but I just saw it):

I really do miss #BeOS. I've been doing file transfers a lot this past year as I consolidate, clean up, and recover old drives of data. One of the nice feature Tracker had was the ability to pause a file copy. I'm moving TBs of data in both MacOS and Linux and sometimes in the middle of a 12 hour copy, it'd be nice to pause it so the disk isn't thrashing for something *I* need.

I'm not convinced computing has gotten better since then.

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

｢ One of BFS's most important and widely touted features is its support for extended attributes. An example of the importance of attributes is illustrated with an example of MP3 files. Information fields important to an MP3 file would be: song title, band, album, release date, encoding rate, length, number of times played ｣

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/

So, I decided to max the RAM out on my #Lenovo #Thinkstation #P340. It takes 128GB of RAM. It gets here, I install it, machine just turns off and on. I troubleshoot, and if I pull the ram from DIMM slot 4, it boots fine. Not a bad stick as I rotate through them and they all test fine. I reinstall the original ram (2x 16GB sticks) and I notice the same slot is bad.

Call in to get warranty work, get the mobo swapped, same issue. While the tech is on the phone to get another mobo on the way, I get some idea that maybe it's an allocation issue since it's happening during POST- you know- like the old #BeOS >1GB RAM issue. I pull my 3.2TB Samsung PCIe AIC NVME and , machine boots and posts all ram- including DIMM slot 4. I try my NVME in another slot and same issue.

So, weird issue- I can't have a PCIe AIC NVME (or at least this one anyway) and have all 4 ram slots work in a Lenovo ThinkStation P340 tower system. You'd think for a workstation-class machine, this wouldn't be an issue. But here we are. 128GB of RAM or an additional 3.2TB of screamin fast PCIe NVME server-class storage.

New book arrived and I'm super excited to get into it.
#beos

Colleague of mine was sorting through some old stuff of his and found this.

Ah, memories!

Haiku Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver)

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-gpu-driver/16520

Nouvelles de Haiku - Hiver 2024-25 https://linuxfr.org/news/nouvelles-de-haiku-hiver-2024-25 #iceweasel #Haiku #haiku #beos

#BeOS-Inspired #HaikuOS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-2025-January

I was really happy with my parking spot today.

I found online, on the WayBackMachine, two of my own desktop screenshots running BeOS in the early 2000s.

Inspired by @lproven's recent writeup on The Register, I'm relaxing this Sunday by playing around with putting Haiku OS onto a very old Samsung netbook.

So far it's working really well, I have the internet up & running and it can cope (slowly) with Mastodon even on the built in browser, which is impressive.