General Haiku Discussion

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fit-PC 2 support

Forum thread started by RhapsodyGuru on Tue, 2009-09-15 18:32

Hello... do you think that Haiku will be able to support the fit-PC 2 Value with WiFi?

http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fit-PC2_Models#fit-PC2_Value_WiFi

Hopefully Haiku will support all the hardware on that small box. It would make an excellent thin-client.

The only thing I am worried about is the Intel (*cough* PowerVR *cough*) GMA500 graphics chip.

Guru

Supported / Recommended NetBook?

Forum thread started by che on Tue, 2009-09-15 11:35

I have just downloaded the Alpha ISO and booted it on my Ultra 20 workstation and am very very impressed! I would like to buy a NetBook to run Haiku on as a day to day OS and am wondering if anyone has any experiences with particular makes and models and could make a recommendation?

Any info suggestion very much appreciated...

Che Kristo
http://myunix.org/

Is Haiku as fast as BeOS?

Forum thread started by K_Shaw on Mon, 2009-09-14 09:05

I have never used BeOS; it is not usable on my computer because it can't detect my USB keyboard and mouse. I know everyone says BeOS had legendary responsiveness and speed, and I also know that Haiku is not fully optimized yet. I'm just wondering if the experience of Haiku is something close to what they were talking about, or is there room for it to get even better when the optimizations are applied?

Status of NTFS

Forum thread started by K_Shaw on Mon, 2009-09-07 19:15

What's the status of the ntfs-3g driver on the haiku images? I have been following the developer mailing lists and am aware of the licensing situation that was being debated with this driver. A Sep 1st post states that:

> The file-systems,
> for which the FSF GPL-FAQ mentions an exemtion, now ignore the GPL
> configuration and are installed anyway. While I don't agree that the
> GPL-FAQ has more say than the GPL itself, I am personally fine with this
> setup.

However, the latest raw hdd image did not work for me with NTFS, and if trying to force it via Terminal, mount gives "invalid argument". FAT partitions were detected and mounted fine from the Tracker right out of the box.

Testing the alpha rc

Forum thread started by 6foot3 on Sun, 2009-09-06 09:36

As the date for the alpha release draws closer I have started to test haiku on actual hardware instead of VMs. I was directed to the Haiku Files page for the release candidate image files by an article on OSNews (Why wasn't it announced here?) and immediately downloaded the latest image. I use linux (ubuntu) so I used dd to write the image to a 2gb usb flash drive and have been attempting to boot from that.

I have access to several systems that should be able to boot from the flash drive including a new Intel D945GCLF2 (Atom 330) based system. I want to help the developers make sure that the alpaha release boots succesfully on as wide a variety of hardware as possible. How can I help? I really would like to see Haiku boot on the Intel D945GCLF2 and it does not as of build 32945.

Alan

Dial up connection

Forum thread started by Bruno Brocoli on Thu, 2009-09-03 14:10

Is there no more Dial Up Connection Support in Haiku?
Plenty of people in India and South-East-Asia still using Modems.

I thought it would be good to get Haiku running on older Hardware since still many people use 200Mhz, 300Mhz up to 500Mhz Computers.

Haiku is not running on my older systems (P3) only on the newest one a 2400Mhz computer.

Most people cannot afford a DSL Connection here...

Well played clerks...

Forum thread started by computrius on Wed, 2009-09-02 03:21

I have the latest iso running natively. Nice :) Sound works, network works (It didnt work right off the bat. DHCP wouldnt get an ip address at first, but it seems to have found one at some point because suddenly networking works.). I cant tell if it detected my radeon or not, but if its running on vesa its running really damn fast compared to Be with visa. Im amazed at just how much it feels like the original Be OS. All it needs is BeIDE back :)

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