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Re: Haiku Project

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Post by nickpsecurity »

fu9ar wrote: post #69
honkhonkpants wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Software modems, you mean. Real modems are attached to serial ports and don't require drivers :-)

Essentially, it doesn't matter what mechanism generates the signals except when it came down to me wanting to play with Linux twenty years ago and a company decided to release a product that was only compatible with a single operating system. My desire to play with Linux did not happen to be worth as much as it would have cost to do so at the time, so I waited.

It does. The soft modens were partly a lockin technique to decrease odds you'd be able to use something like Linux without buying new hardware. The strategy apparently worked. It's why I push for standards-compliant hardware that requires no funny business to use in new ways.

Re: Haiku Project

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Post by nickpsecurity »

agildehaus wrote: post #39
mikestew wrote: post #23

I've played with Haiku in a VM in the past. But what is suggested that I do with the OS? Be a daily driver? Does it fit some niche use case? I have an old netbook, I'd load Haiku on the boot partition, I really would. I'm a sucker for something different (given the evils of Big OS and all), and for the underdog. Hell, I might even contribute if I have something (coding wise) to give. So I load 'er up on the ol' boot…

> then why are the devs pouring time into it The goal of Haiku is to revive BeOS in open-source so that it might never die again. It's simply a recreation of BeOS R5 with some modernness thrown in. I think the developers are intelligent enough to be aware that their OS might not have a future of taking on Apple or Microsoft. If you want a comparison, this is similar to how Linux came to be. Linus was frustrated at MI…

There was a post somewhere where they realized it was going nowhere in terms of turning into a real OS. They have no delusions. They said something like they mainly saw its value in experimentation, learning, fun.

Re: Haiku Project

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Post by j3097736 »

mikestew wrote: post #23

I've played with Haiku in a VM in the past. But what is suggested that I do with the OS? Be a daily driver? Does it fit some niche use case? I have an old netbook, I'd load Haiku on the boot partition, I really would. I'm a sucker for something different (given the evils of Big OS and all), and for the underdog. Hell, I might even contribute if I have something (coding wise) to give. So I load 'er up on the ol' boot…

The installation is very fast since it just copies package files which are read-only images mounted at boot.

1) download anyboot nighly image

2) dd to sacrifical flash drive

3) boot from it and install

Once installed you can use https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/updating-system to upgrade the system

Re: Haiku Project

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Post by codezero »

I hope this isn't too off topic, but I recall when the BeBox was coming out, one of its cool features was the "Geekport"

I am going to Google it – but I'm curious if anyone on HN had experience with it and can explain what made it awesome (or not!)

Re: Haiku Project

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Post by jsmith0295 »

orionblastar wrote: post #77

Yes I have donated to HakuOS, ReactOS, https://www.reactos.org/ and other free and open source projects. There is AROS based on AmigaOS for X86 PCs as well. http://aros.sourceforge.net/ There is also OSFree an OS/2 rewrite from scratch: http://www.osfree.org/ I'm not a system level programmer, I always worked with business apps and other apps. If I was a system level programmer I'd donate some time to working on thos…

At this point the only potential I see for a viable alternative to Windows and Mac on the desktop is ChromeOS/Android, and that's still not quite where it needs to be yet.

Re: Haiku Project

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Post by orbitingpluto »

I really enjoyed Be back in the day and made an attempt to use it as my primary operating system. Two months later, my internet provider stopped giving me leases for it. I put it behind a router that would give the BeOS computer a lease. When I cloned the MAC of the computer it refused to give me an address. I got so curious I put another NIC in and tried without the router. Soon thereafter it was also banned. The ISP was banning my NIC if I was running Be. To this day I have no idea what happened. It was also interesting to note that the router's MAC was not banned when a computer running Be was behind it.

Re: Haiku Project

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Post by tjl »

jason_slack wrote: post #49

I bought a BeBox while in college. Everyone was using DOS/Windows for C++. Not me :-) The amount I learned about threading, SMP, concurrency, locking, mutexes, was way more valuable than any college programming course I took. I still wish an email client as good as PostMaster was available on OS X now. PE was my editor. Haiku is a great implementation. I wish more of what it offers were in OS's that I have to use eac…

There used to be an OS X editor called Pepper that was basically PE for OS X. I don't think it's still around. I can't find it except in very old references.

There is Eddie [1], which is based on a BeOS editor and is written by a former Be employee. He's very responsive to feedback. I worked with him in improving its LaTeX support.

[1] http://www.el34.com

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