General Haiku Discussion

I am a great enthusiast of free and open source OSes .

Like:

GNU/Linux:
Since it's a Unix clone it's stable. It has great potential but lacks the FreeBSD-style documentation.

Freebsd:
since its based on Unix its ridiculously stable . It has great potential but lacks the
user-friendly installer and eye candy looks .

Freedos:
it is a MS Dos clone .

React OS:
It is in development (version 0.312) it mimics the Windows in every possible way and is compatible with windows apps/drivers . But it has better security . good for those who are average users known only to windows .

Open solaris/open indiana :

I haven't used these so can't say anything about those .

share your experience / views

and please add if you know some other OS(es) which I didn't' mention here .

I would love to know about other ones .

thank you

The google site: http://code.google.com/p/rosetta-os/ has nothing added from it's opening the GMAIL mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/rosetta-os it's the House of the Spammers :-(((

This project is dead?
The "Alternative OSes" have litigated?

I think it was a very good idea to join the forces in this front that is the more difficult part of an OS, can the beautiful OS of the world but if not supports the last technologies... in this way all this alternative OS will obtain a great number of driver developer and there are more possibilities to have new technologies supported.

You have news?

I tested systems that use SB600 & SB700 southbridges in the simulator and they booted and worked in LiveCD mode. AMD chipset motherboards will now work with Haiku which would not before.

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7378#comment:4

If anyone wants to they can test and confirm this. Make sure to grab a very recent Alpha 3 RC image with IO-APIC changes.
http://www.haiku-files.org

The only other major issue left for couple of people is the error "did not find any boot partitions." Hopefully that gets fixed in next release that way everyone will be able to at least boot into Haiku.