"And of course there are features like hardware 3D acceleration, compositing on the desktop or multi-user that everyone would love to have."

One challenge for the future will be "What happens when other frameworks are ported to Haiku?"

"What is the difference of running a Qt application on Haiku versus running it on Linux?" Aßmus says. "Qt is already available for Haiku. Maybe someone ports GTK. The OpenJDK port is very far along and can run big Swing based Java apps. This both benefits Haiku as a platform, but it also makes it less compelling to write native Haiku apps.

"And that basically defeats the desire to provide a redundancy free system where everything works only one way, completely integrated with everything else."

Haiku R1/Alpha 3 can be at .