Crossposted from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74960425
A great article on Haiku and the overall state of alternative operating systems.
However, the author skipped mentioning that NetBSD has taken an anti-AI stance as well. From developer guidelines:
- Do not commit tainted code to the repository. … Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core
The developers’ announcement on Mastodon: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900
I have tried past Haiku betas on an old-but-no-so-old ThinkPad X31, and the experience wasn’t buggy enough to go back NetBSD.
I really liked the conclusion of the article. As someone who uses NetBSD as my primary computer, an old Nokia with Symbian as my secondary phone, self-host whatever I can, and with a general aversion to Electron apps, the conclusion really resonated with me.
We like to imagine a world of Haiku clients, talking to NetBSD back-end servers, and nothing but feature-phones – maybe running a revived Symbian. No AI, no Electron apps anywhere. A sky as clear and blue as the Haiku desktop, with no trace of a Cloud to be seen. That sounds idyllic to us. If it does to you as well, we think you might enjoy trying Haiku.
Gotta ask this: Can we finally directly print from LibreOffice or exporting as pdf is still necessary? Asking for a relative.
On Haiku? I haven’t tried it.
I see. Thanks for the reply. I hope someone who tried sees my question.
Is that based on BeOS? I ran that back in 96!
I’m one of the few that bought a license :) it was before i started using Linux :)
I remember my colleague buying it. It ran so fast on my old 386 (or maybe K5, not sure). The only problem was eager to run it and wiped my HDD during installation:)
