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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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Makes sense. I had codex port haiku to arm64. Works decently, fun to play with on my Mac.

What I'd love to see (but likely lack the skill to, even with Claude Opus) is PowerPC. Haiku would look great on an iMac G4.

There have been some contributions accepted recently for the PowerPC port, so maybe it will happen! There is a working AI-driven derivative distribution as well. https://github.com/ActionRetro/Tabby-PPC

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

#92

Just a heads-up for those trying it out, I've found a couple of regressions in Beta 6 that rendered my Haiku system unbootable, until I remembered about hammering the space key during the boot sequence to get to the safe mode menu. In my case, my ThinkPad X1 (Yoga 3rd Gen) used to boot despite what appeared to be kernel panics, but typing "continue" at the kernel prompt would skip past them and everything would then…

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Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

#93

Just a heads-up for those trying it out, I've found a couple of regressions in Beta 6 that rendered my Haiku system unbootable, until I remembered about hammering the space key during the boot sequence to get to the safe mode menu. In my case, my ThinkPad X1 (Yoga 3rd Gen) used to boot despite what appeared to be kernel panics, but typing "continue" at the kernel prompt would skip past them and everything would then…

Maybe share my old article with Haiku developers: https://clickhouse.com/blog/agentic-coding Could be a small chance, but it has already made many engineers reconsider their AI stance.

It certainly made me reconsider my AI stance.

I no longer use subscription based services like your.

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

#94

Just a heads-up for those trying it out, I've found a couple of regressions in Beta 6 that rendered my Haiku system unbootable, until I remembered about hammering the space key during the boot sequence to get to the safe mode menu. In my case, my ThinkPad X1 (Yoga 3rd Gen) used to boot despite what appeared to be kernel panics, but typing "continue" at the kernel prompt would skip past them and everything would then…

Haiku should rethink that AI rule. Put very high code quality gates in place, sure, but Haiku in particular is a very low-velocity project and AI could help them so much. There is no reason you can't produce high-quality code with AI conformant to your style guidelines and structural preferences, it just takes a lot more effort than the slop.

What is a high code quality gate?

Besides telling the AI it's an expert and to build perfect code?

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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> If there be anything that can ever steal the spotlight from Mac; it would be Haiku. I looked at the Haiku slideshow and I'm not seeing this. It looks like an eye sore, desktop environments familiar of the 90s. Even early OSX is a massive improvement (as it was to the NeXT desktop).

I agree, it's arguably clean, and definitely an improvement over Windows 98 era GUI, probably also XP era. But the world has moved on. Even KDE looks better today.

> Even KDE looks better today.

:-o

I am honestly amazed.

IMHO KDE is fugly and it always has been.

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

#96

Just a heads-up for those trying it out, I've found a couple of regressions in Beta 6 that rendered my Haiku system unbootable, until I remembered about hammering the space key during the boot sequence to get to the safe mode menu. In my case, my ThinkPad X1 (Yoga 3rd Gen) used to boot despite what appeared to be kernel panics, but typing "continue" at the kernel prompt would skip past them and everything would then…

Maybe share my old article with Haiku developers: https://clickhouse.com/blog/agentic-coding Could be a small chance, but it has already made many engineers reconsider their AI stance.

I keep a personal list of links to defend my non-AI stance. It is weird I even need to. If I am a carpenter and I was ordered to use a robot and tell it what to do there would be lawsuits and what not but as a software developer I am the idiot that does not want to modernize.

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

#97
I am working on the IUP fork (UI toolkit) , with many new drivers/backends and features, and, of course, I added Haiku because it looks and performs so well, it works differently from what I used to see, making it even more interesting. The result: the absolute king in memory usage was the Win32 driver, like 4M for Hello World; in Haiku, that is 3M! For comparison, the GTK4 driver uses 40M; GTK3 and Qt6 ~15. WinUI is something like ~25.

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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I'm so happy. Haiku to me, is visually the most beautiful operating system out there. The icons, apps, designs. If there be anything that can ever steal the spotlight from Mac; it would be Haiku. And the OS is perhaps the one and only one that remains a tool in the old sense. All other operating systems are now service and signups and telemetry and notifications; this is the last resort remaining for the rest of us.…

> If there be anything that can ever steal the spotlight from Mac; it would be Haiku. I looked at the Haiku slideshow and I'm not seeing this. It looks like an eye sore, desktop environments familiar of the 90s. Even early OSX is a massive improvement (as it was to the NeXT desktop).

One thing Haiku has is that it looks utterly coherent. Yeah, it looks 90s, but at least it looks like that everywhere you poke it. Every other OS out there became, in that regard, a mess.

Re: Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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post #91

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What I'd love to see (but likely lack the skill to, even with Claude Opus) is PowerPC. Haiku would look great on an iMac G4.

There have been some contributions accepted recently for the PowerPC port, so maybe it will happen! There is a working AI-driven derivative distribution as well. https://github.com/ActionRetro/Tabby-PPC

Cool! I watch Action Retro sometimes, but prefer the more relaxed style of TDNC.
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