Haiku OS demonstration

Hey, this is another demonstration of Haiku OS, see, is pretty fast, have a lot of applications out-of-the-box and run nicely in modest hardware.
That is my EeePC 701.

How-to Install? Just follow my tutorial.
http://megafs.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/installing-haiku-os-in-your-computer-h...

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Science & Technology

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• haiku
• eeepc
• beos

[TheJakeDTH]

Another problem with Haiku is its X11 licensing, its development on a permissive platform can easily be the death of the operating system. Any company can learn from them, even directly take code, put it to use in their product and release the whole thing (well everything but the GNU Tools) as a new proprietary operating system. In other words, the main problem with Haiku is: even if they do develop something great, it may not remain Free Software forever, it may damage itself in the long run.

[eumegaf]

@TheJakeDTH Haiku does not use X11 or any other kind of graphical server.

[TheJakeDTH]

People running Haiku seem to always talk about its speed, but what they don't realize is that once they've added support for all the different kinds of hardware assuming they can get companies to release code for it (if the Free Software Foundation can't, no one can) and improve on the looks the operating system will slow down. Also, Haiku doesn't run any better then something like Damn Small Linux or Debian GNU/Linux with LXDE, and both D.S.L. and Debian have much more stability and support.

[eumegaf]

@TheJakeDTH Haiku is fast because is well developed, the speed is in the programmers mind. Haiku is meant to be fast.

[arinlares]

I wish I had an SSD. I'm running it on my 1000HA. It doesn't do too bad on boot, from Grub to fully-useable GUI in about 11 seconds. I can't wait to see what they're going to call a stable release, though, as R1 A2 is pretty sweet as-is.

[eumegaf]

@arinlares I hope the SSD get more and more cheaper soon, HDDs mus DIE!

[hijrakom]

amazing boot time

[YoursTrulySean]

Tried it.. no sound or wireless, it's a shame, it did have a very fast boot time and a pretty nice title; "Haiku OS"

[TheWater911]

@eumegaf It has the potential to have speed, but it doesn't yet for many reasons. As far as I am concerned, it should mostly be written in C, not C++. We will see what results from this after everything is well optimized and fixed up, but until then it is ridiculously buggy and not fast at all.

[Cakama3a]

UGLYY!!!

[khoraski]

MY WIFI CARD IS INCOMPATIBLE >:(

[khoraski]

Did you ever get wifi working?

[activeplum]

In 2011 this does not look that fast: a Macbook Air fully boots in 14 seconds, this thing in 22.

[VVakaFlockaFlame]

too bad no software devs acknowledge it

[Azendale]

@TheJakeDTH Isn't this what happend when Apple made Mac OS X? I think they took the Free/Open Source Darwin BSD and made Mac OS X (which you aren't even allowed to run on Hardware not made by Apple!)

I can hardly wait for Windows to go away, so that all the Libre/Open Source OS can battle it out. Wouldn't it be nice if instead of one standard OS that does everything (badly), people would actually get to pick an OS that fits what they are using the computer for?

[eumegaf]

@takoylhsopensource Office, Browser, 3D modeling software, video edition and so on.