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I still need to play with Haiku (or BeOS).

Much as I like POSIXey stuff, and am perfectly happy with macOS or Linux, a part of me feels like POSIX is an example of the "curse of the good enough". It's nice to see an open source non-Unix getting a bit of love, even if it's still somewhat of a niche audience right now.

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Haiku is POSIX compatible, thus giving access to a wide software library, while keeping it coherent on the UI-UX side. Native applications are slowly coming through, though.

I actually didn't know that. Maybe I should boot Haiku onto one of my secondary PCs and try playing with it.

If you run into any issues, please drop by the forums or the IRC to get assistance.

Haiku yes, BeOS not so much, if I recall correctly just a small subset was implemented.

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