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Haiku

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Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:44 am

An open source operating system (OS) for personal computing that was inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS). The Haiku operating system offers a custom kernel design, a database-like file system (OpenBFS) with support for indexed metadata, and it is fully threaded design for great efficiency with multi-core CPUs.