Hey guys I'm Ozfer,
I am new to Haiku and just discovered it and Beos lately. I think that this is a great operating system you guys are developing and I was partially wondering what is going on.
I see that the version on the website hasn't been updated in almost a year and does anyone know when the next release will be? Plus when I made a account on the website gmail auto put my confirmation emails into the spam box for some reason....
Also I have tried Haiku on many of my computers and it just wont boot. First I tried it on my main desktop a AMD 1100T with ati 6970 and 16GB DDR3. The first time it loaded up and I was able to select install OS but it couldn't find my hard drive so I gave up. Later I tried again and it always crashed my computer and I could never get it to the install/live cd menu again.
Then I tried it on a gateway pentium 4 based intel 512MB ram and basic intel video. This time it only got to the Haiku screen and it froze on the box with a maple leaf. After trying about 10 times and giving it an hour it would finally freeze on the rocket the last picture of the loading screen and would not get any farther then that.
After I tried it on a Athlon xp 4GB ram 2 core 2.6Ghz cpu with Nvidia 620(I think). On this computer Haiku would crash on loading the cd and say something about pci not being detect or is wrong or something and I could never get it past that.
Then I tried my laptop a Asus amd quad core 2.3Ghz 8GB ram and a ATI video card. This time Haiku would pretty speedily get to the rocket and then completely freeze and no disk access noise. I could never get it farther then that.
Finally just for the sake of trying I put it in my ancient compaq presario laptop. Yep a whopping 190Mhz Cyrix and 144MB ram with some low end cyrix graphics and a 2GB hdd. Holy S*** it actually booted very quickly to the desktop and then it froze... on the Haiku desktop. The keyboard seemed to work but the mouse didn't and at that point it seemed like it was frozen.
Yea so that leads me to the next question. What does Haiku run on? Almost everything I tried it on wont boot and or freezes. The only way I could get it to run was in VMware and no one online have said what hardware they have it running on, furthermore it seems to me even if I installed it I may not have a compatible internet card or graphics card and other devices does anyone know supported cards?
I would love to help Haiku almost any way I can. I am a pretty new but okay Java programmer and would love to see open JDK come onto Haiku as this would be a major step in the right direction but I see that hasn't been updated in over a year and no one has gotten it fully working. Also I am very good with computer hardware and servers. If anyone has any help to get Haiku to run on any of my computers please tell me as I would like to get it to run on real hardware and not on a VM.
Thanks,
Ozfer
