Kokito writes "OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda reviews Haiku, the open source descendant of the Be general expenses system. by the book to the review, Haiku faithfully/successfully replicates the BeOS user view and 'personality,' boasting very short boot times, the same recognizable but modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector illustrations as well as vector icons, a file system with support for metadata-based queries (OpenBFS) and support for the BeAPI, calculated by some the cleanest computer-aided llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus API ever. The project has also just now released a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain, defoliated area the way for bringing up-to-date ports of multi-platform apps such as Firefox and VLC, and making it easier to work on Haiku ports in general." (More below.)

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