General Haiku Discussion

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Tried Intel Mac Mini and Shuttle xPC (x86)

Forum thread started by sitongia on Sun, 2011-10-09 02:50

Not sure where the best place is to report attempts. Not asking for help to get this going. Just tried these systems because their around. Really want Haiju on something else. Anyway...

Tried on an Apple Mac Mini Intel Core Duo (2009?). Got through all icons on the startup, and just hung there.

Tried on a Shuttle xPC (2006), with Intel Core Solo. Kernel panic going through the startup icons.

==Leonard

What's so good about Haiku anyway?

Forum thread started by macsociety on Fri, 2011-10-07 23:38

One of the statements on the about Haiku page is "What's so good about Haiku anyway". Highlighted below is the snippet from that page.

Just curious is all, is that Haiku now 10 years after it was started, and at an Alpha stage right now, are these highlights still relavent in todays computing world.

I am not a programmer but a user, and can understand some of the things below, but I guess one thing that comes to mind is, what OS does not already focus on "personal computing" these days. I would think even Linux has become more user friendly that many folks can install and use it.

Is this "personal computing" statement still a major point of Haiku and what is different about Haiku's personal computing approach over other OSes such as Mac OS X, etc...

I guess something to comes to mind, is after 10 years now, does Haiku really offer us something over other OSes or is this just a hobby for some here that have memories of the BeOS past and want to keep it alive.

Don't get me wrong, I liked BeOS then in the 1990s, still like it today in a retro feel kind of way, but wonder if Haiku gives us something much better than other OSes that are not Alpha, not Beta, but shipping product.

From what I understand it will take another 5 years before Haiku is out of Alpha and Beta and by then, computing may be much different than we see today and wondering if at the speed things are progressing now, if Haiku would ever be of mass appeal values.

TJ

What's so good about Haiku anyway?

The key highlights that distinguish Haiku from other operating systems include:

Specific focus on personal computing
Custom kernel designed for responsiveness
Fully threaded design for great efficiency with multi-processor/core CPUs
Rich OO API for faster development
Database-like file system (OpenBFS) with support for indexed metadata
Unified, cohesive interface

Haiku on a Laptop

Forum thread started by Meezzio on Wed, 2011-10-05 10:21

Hello All,

A quick background - Back in the day I was a user of BeOS, and always loved it. When Be Inc went belly up, I stuck with it as long as I could, but eventually I shifted over to Mac OS. I have always kept an eye on OpenBeOS/Haiku, but only recently have I decided to bite the bullet and get into Haiku. The decisions that Apple has made with OS X Lion helped with this decision greatly.

So, I need to buy a Haiku compatible system. I have looked at the list on Haikuware, and it seems to be fairly sparse on details. What I would really like is to be given a suggestion on a laptop (that is fairly recent) that I should go out and buy. I don't mind some fiddling, but I would really prefer if sound and wifi ultimately could be made to work.

I really appreciate the help!

Meezzio

GCC4 on Alpha3

Forum thread started by sysek on Wed, 2011-10-05 07:48

Hi there.

Can I get GCC4 in official release Alpha3 ?

Graphics-Accelerant

Forum thread started by chaotic on Tue, 2011-10-04 10:52

Hello,

give it a way to check which graphics-accelerant (vesa, radeon, nvidia,...) is definitely used by the system?

thanks
René

FILE Command

Forum thread started by clasqm on Mon, 2011-10-03 13:31

Does Haiku have an equivalent to the file command? I am writing a script that needs to find out if the file I'm dealing with is plain text. In OSX (and Linux, I believe), I can do that with

file -b --mime-type filename

Any way to do this in Haiku?

Tethering with Android

Forum thread started by admin on Sun, 2011-10-02 18:36

I was wondering if it is possible to connect to the internet in Haiku by tethering with my android phone because there are no drivers for my ethernet or wifi card. I thought that maybe the usb device would appear as a network adapter in the preferences when I plugged in my phone, but this does not seem to be the case.

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