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Haiku has been in beta for twenty years.

Haiku still doesn't boot on many modern systems.

Haiku can use all the help it can get.

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But no-one wants AI slop in it.

Good for you. But Haiku (OS) is MIT licensed and therefore easily forked, and at this point the AI you dismiss as "Special Needs Wintermute" (much as I agree with the sentiment "You need to be able to explain your work without just pasting in what [it] says") is being used to find and resolve critical issues in OSes that actually get used outside of hobbies, and even when the AI was a lot more meh than it currently is, it has been useful for such hobby projects* when used by people capable of explaining as you demand.

* I like hobby projects, no shade here. But it is a hobby project, just like the people trying to keep RISC OS modern, or my suggestion about MacOS classic. There's no obvious reason to pick these things over "just use some flavour of linux" in the present world, unless you're a nerd like us.

Ironically, it being a hobby project might actually be a good reason to keep the AI away: the effort is the point.

Then fork it, and add your own AI slop to it.

But it won't be included upstream.

That's fine. But I might end up with a system I can actually use. That actually boots.

If you look at Haiku, they have a handful of regular contributors. I think from memory they have one or two people working on it.

I would love to be able to sit down and port drivers by hand and contribute them. And maybe when I am retired in 20 years time, I can do that -- at which point, Haiku will be a 40 year old project.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

> That's fine. But I might end up with a system I can actually use. That actually boots.

You already do. What are you trying to run it on, that isn't booting?

Lenovo T14 Gen 6 (AMD)

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