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		nickpsecurity on Dec 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haiku booting in UEFI mode "Why would you be interested in it over Linux? " Personal pleasure of an alternative desktop. Experimental playground for OS developers. Minimalist box for older hardware with high performance. Obscurity benefit against hackers that I hear PPC Mac users still get. A few things like that. It's not competitive against Linux/BSD desktops in about any other case.

stOneskull on Dec 17, 2016 [–]

"Minimalist box for older hardware with high performance. "

That's what I like. For when even a good Linux distro is too much for the hardware. The slow, old thing can be transformed into a nice, new thing.

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