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Haiku does not boot on the following system. It gets all way to the end and then goes to black screen instead of the desktop. If I had to guess I think that something really is running because I get HD acctivity if I remove or insert a Cd or Usb drive. Any suggestions?

Intel Atom 1.6ghz dual core motherboard
512mb DDR2 Memory (Trust me this is enough to get started)
160gb 3.5" s-ata hard disk.
1 x PCI slot for NVidia 5200 PCI 3D card

I downloaded the new ISO, tried to burn it 3 times unsuccessfully with 2 different Linux burners before I checked the checksum (I know I'm a bit slow) & it is not what is on the download page for the ISO.

I just downloaded the ISO again on a different machine & got the same checksum as the first download image that won't burn.

I am attempting to burn the new download on the different machine.

I'll re-post the results.

If the checksum is correct then you have the wrong one on the download page. If the checksum is incorrect, then there is a bad ISO on all the mirrors, (I downloaded from a different mirror the 2nd time).

[Edit:] The 2nd image seems ok, though NeroLinux crashed when trying to verify it (which is a first). I'll install to HDD & give the result here too.

[Edit2:]
@mmadia: Sorry I didn't get a "Save" button when I try to reply last night to your question? I'm here again this morning & I still don't get a "Save" button therefore I have to edit this post?

Anyway the two mirrors are:

Illinois - reflected.net & SourceForge

Alright, I'm almost spamming the forum but please bear with me, it's only day two in Haiku-week..

So, I've downloaded a lot of apps and not one of them works. They all miss some libs that I guess, I could browse around haikuware to find.
However - this makes me think.
The default Haiku image has like, 10 MB free - they won't fit in there anyway. Will it work installing all these libs on the extra parttion, and if so, how the heck does the system no where to look? Are there any good description of how Haiku actually works and defines it's environment?

I would however suggest to have more libs installed default, it's kind of depressing when none will work out of the box ;)

Hi all,

I've just spent my first day with Haiku in Virtualbox and hade some thoughts. First of all, I'm not an old BeOS user, I did try it out back in the days but I was completely stuck in the penguin crowd at that time. Anyway, I need some new playground and decided to try out Haiku and take a look at Darkwyrms interesting programming tutorials.

However, I have a few question as a regular user, like what program does what and how good is it? I browse around haikuware for example and find some IM clients but have no clue on which one to use, it seem that some of them are outdated but perhaps it's not?

I would love a wikipage or sort of with the alternatives for standard stuff, like office suite, image editing, mesaging etc. I do have a few "must have" applications that I need to get my hands on before I start coding them myself ;)

In Virtualbox, Haiku seem a little bit sluggish (especially Bezilla) put I guess that is Virtualbox only? Maybe I should take a look in the shed and see if I could get some old stuff working..