Haiku OS is an open-source operating system that is designed for personal computing.
To start or to take a brief tour, you can head over to http:www.haiku-os.org.
After you download the files, you can choose to install Haiku to a partition in your hard drive, make a live CD, boot from USB or use it in Live mode (it will disappear after you shutdown -to be replaced by your conventional OS if you have one).
Instead of a taskbar like Windows, Haiku has a Deskbar, which is placed top right by default.
The Deskbar gives you access to all settings and apps within the system. If you like, you can change its location to any corner of the screen.
Haiku has been translated by volunteers into 25 different languages and all the basics you need to get started are built in: for instance, it has an email client, web browser, calculator, text editor, disc space monitor, un-archiver (unzipper), system monitoring tools, printer webcam drivers and audio-video players.
