Is the Haiku shell comparable in power to Linux? How does it relate to the graphical layers of the OS?

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Mar 24 · 8 weeks ago

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💎 istvan [mod] · Mar 25 at 02:43:

The shell is just a shell. It is mostly POSIX compatible. You can run bash or zsh or whatever. But the structure of where files are can be quite different. Also because it is single user the permission system is a bit different and what is writable and by what is a bit different.

Not sure if there is a good summary of difference in the docs. I’ve been using it since 2010 so it’s hard to remember what would most trip up someone coming from Unix-like.

🍩 wholesomedonut · Mar 26 at 05:16:

@istvan: could you summarize your experience with HaikuOS over that 14 year time period? It's not an OS I've ever used, but I've thought about it many times. I just don't have a reason, I suppose. I'm curious to see why you've stuck with it for so long.

💎 istvan [mod] · Mar 27 at 13:07:

It’s been on and off. Only been my daily OS for a couple years now.

I don’t know. I just like it. It reminds me of what Linux used to be like in 1997.