![]() ![]() Apple is slowly turning it into ugly, bloated crap, to serve iPhone sales, but it’s still better than any alternatives have my replacement OS. Mac OS still doesn’t have the feel of BeOS, but it gave me the needed out from my Windows misery. I’m not sure what the point of it is any more, if it’s just going to keep being driven by Linux enthusiasts. It was supposed to be a BeOS clone, not a Linux. Aside from not having the user-responsiveness of BeOS (the kernel isn’t scheduled the same way as BeOS’s kernel, and this just made me feel like i wasn’t running BeOS… because i wasn’t), they stuck the net_server into the kernel, added a package manager, and started filling in the holes by porting Linux code (driver wrappers, APIs). All of the major goals for R1 have been met, yet there are still many many bugs and missing functionality, and there is many more features yet to come in R2 and beyond. Now that package management has been added, packages have been built, and the infrastructure is in place to update packages, Haiku will soon move into Beta. It took the project a while to get to the other side of this feature but Haiku is in a better place because of it. This was necessary for the final release out the door for tasks such as updating your system and apps. Once package management was merged in It took a long time for the project to get all the packages put together and to setup the infrastructure to update packages automatically and a bunch of other thing. This work was done by a couple of core Haiku developers, was discussed extensively on the mailing list, and remains controversial. ![]() But as you know there’s inherent risk to other operating systems this way and I personally don’t have experience multibooting Haiku on a separate partition.Īfter R1/A4 was released in November 2014 there was a donation-paid developer sponsorship to do package management. With linux distros I frequently use a partitioned multiboot setup with no problems, going so far as to install linux into LVM volumes (yay!). If I lived closer, I’d lend you those so you could do a proper review on bare metal as an OS is meant to be. Your experiences and feedback will be more valuable to the Haiku community if you are running on bare hardware than if you are running in a VM.ĭo you have a spare harddrive you can use? Or external media you can boot from? If not then IMHO you should buy one, it’s useful to have anyways. If you are going to be using/reviewing Haiku for a couple weeks anyways, I also think it’s important for you to have some experience going native. I’d love to go native, but aside from not having the hardware to do so, I want to make sure I get an impression of *Haiku*, not its hardware support. ![]()
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