# Alternate Desktop Universe

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/269/
> What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 269
- Date: 2018-10-02
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Guests: alex, brent
- Duration: 01:04:08
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/0a6483e4-9ce5-4925-918d-469832fd6a52.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkBgrxYYgM





### Episode Links

  * [System76 To Release A "New Open-Source Computer"](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=System76-Open-Source-Computer "System76 To Release A "New Open-Source Computer"")
  * [Fedora 29 Succeeds At Flicker-Free Boot Experience On Intel Hardware](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-29-Flicker-Free-Boot "Fedora 29 Succeeds At Flicker-Free Boot Experience On Intel Hardware")
  * [Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in Chrome](https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/google-gets-into-game-streaming-with-project-stream-and-assassins-creed-odyssey-in-chrome/ "Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in Chrome")
  * [Halloween Documents](http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ "Halloween Documents")
  * [BeOS R5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS_R5 "BeOS R5")
  * [R1/beta1 – Release Notes | Haiku Project](https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/release-notes/ "R1/beta1 – Release Notes | Haiku Project") — It’s been just about a month less than six years since Haiku’s last release in November 2012
  * [Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/ars-spends-too-much-time-trying-to-work-in-haiku-the-beos-successor/ "Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor") — What starts as a joke Turned into a fool's errand "I'll work in Haiku."
  * [The Be Book - The Application Kit](https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheApplicationKit_Overview.html "The Be Book - The Application Kit")
  * [s-tui: Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility](https://github.com/amanusk/s-tui "s-tui: Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility") — Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility
  * [Lenovo-throttling-fix](https://github.com/erpalma/lenovo-throttling-fix "Lenovo-throttling-fix") — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
  * [fwupd - ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fwupd "fwupd - ArchWiki") — fwupd is a simple daemon allowing to update some devices firmware, including UEFI BIOS for several machines. 
  * [Virtual Machine Manager Home](https://virt-manager.org/ "Virtual Machine Manager Home") — The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers).
  * [Kimchi](https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi#what-is-kimchi "Kimchi") — Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.
  * [python-imaging Ubuntu Package](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/python-imaging/4.1.1-3build2 "python-imaging Ubuntu Package")