This really filled most of the requirements for a modern browser on this OS. Haiku has seen progress of porting QtWebEngine and sooner or later will ended up with a QtWebEngine-powered Otter browser.
But eComstation allowed you (maybe still does) to install on three machines for each license.
Interestingly, ArcaOS only allows a 1:1 installation, meaning one license per machine. But my subscription isn't valid for ArcaOS anymore. I bought a copy of both eComStation and ArcaOS. A commercial company selling eComStation never made it out of 2.2 beta. So there is no guarantee Haiku will ever release a production ready product. You can still purchase eComStation 2.1 GA from XEU.com. A beta release of 2.2 was released by XEU.com, but it never went GA. eComStation had a few releases, but with version 2.1 GA, Mensys BV took over development. So being commercial doesn't matter in some cases.Īlso, Serenity Systems developed eComStation after IBM ended Warp. The answer was time and money of why they can't. ArcaOS still ships with Java 6 and when I had a valid subscription I asked them to get Java 8 and said it might also attract more users. I'd be surprised if ArcaOS has more developers than Haiku. Has anyone ever heard of it and gave it a try? It's still in beta phase but I would like to see and test a production version of it. But it does run many Linux apps, has a central repository and a package manager like a Linux distro or a BSD OS, I find this really interesting and a bit weird.Ĭompared to Linux or BSD it's lacking many drivers, for example no hardware acceleration at all, but considering that it's still in its infancy, it's OK.
For example it doesn't seem to have a multi-user structure and privilege separation, only one user is created and this user is an administrator without a password so I don't think it's very secure. It does not seem to be an Unix-like OS, although I may be very wrong on this. It is an open-source OS and its interface is unique in fact it seems to be a GUI-centric OS like Windows or MacOS and from what I have read, it's based on a dead commercial OS - BeOS, in the same way in which ReactOS is a free re-creation of Windows. I found this OS by pure chance and it seems really interesting, I burned a live image of it on DVD to test it a bit.