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 found these updated Haiku icons for Linux, and they look great on my wanna-be Haiku/BeOS-like XFce desktop under EndeavourOS. It just feels right.

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

BeOS interface design and user experience were the pinnacle of computing for me in many ways. Super excited about this project to add a C++ UI library to Linux:

https://cosmoe.org/index.html

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/

New #Haiku development report - May 2025!

A month focused on targeted improvements and stability:
- HaikuDepot now more user-friendly for newcomers
- Important Tracker and Terminal fixes
- Major BUrl class rework with cleaner API
- More stable #NFSv4 and #EXT4 drivers
- #Wacom #Intuos4 support added

Interesting milestone: 258 HaikuPorts commits vs 52 core system - shows growing maturity!

Full report: https://www.desktoponfire.com/haikuos/software/778/haiku-overview-of-may-2025-developments/

Some more tweaking, and my BeOS impersonation under XFce is near complete. It just feels good.

And the system now cold-boots at 475 MB of RAM. Awesome!

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

Behold, the riveting saga of #booting #BeOS on a #Hitachi FLORA Prius—a task so thrilling it demands a 1999 user manual and a sprinkle of Japanese documentation. Because nothing screams cutting-edge #technology like juggling #floppy #disks and boot managers in the era of #Y2K panic.
http://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/support/guides/hitachi_boot.html #Prius #HackerNews #ngated

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.

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https://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/

Such an impressive demo of BeOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ

I feed sad that I never had it back days.

On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html

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.