Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
The sixth beta of the Haiku OS is here, now with more choice of web browsers and a working hardware-accelerated hypervisor.
Haiku OS beta 6 came out just a week after the project’s 25th birthday. We have been trying it on several different machines around the Irish Sea wing of Vulture Towers, and enjoying the experience very much.
The release notes contain a lot of changes and some significant new features, although many of them are not immediately obvious.
The built-in WebPositive browser is now based on the WebKit rendering engine, which means it handles even demanding web apps such as Gmail perfectly. On Windows and Linux, Google’s Blink dominates, but its ancestor WebKit is a major browser engine in its own right, with first-class support in almost all web apps – mainly thanks to a billion or so Apple iDevices.
If you want a big-name browser, though, there...
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