Post #4668304 · Elektrine

@503@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2026-09-04 04:00 UTC

Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast Crossposted from 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: mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

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@503@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-04 04:00

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.

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