Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-11-08
Votes: 2
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I dare say this is getting ready for prime time. I love how this is coming along and I hope it keeps the momentum. This is exactly what we need in this day and age. I have made a few $$ contributions to the project and I would encourage anyone to contribute time and/or dough to realise this into what it should be. Huge kudos to the Haiku team.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-10-16
Votes: 2
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A great desktop OS. It has Libreoffice, Python, development environments, gcc, a package manager, decent web browser (still needs work for a lot of Web 2.0+ apps). It boots quickly, apps are quick to launch. It's Unix-like heritage means porting apps isn't too hard. With Python, gcc, Java, and now NodeJS, porting more applications should be easier. Still has some issues with hardware, especially wireless.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-07-14
Votes: 4
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I'm an old time BeOS user, bacj then and enjoyed playing with Haiku. I wonder if it could become a phone OS now?
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-02-18
Votes: 15
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Too rudimentary for serious usage in 2019, but as a PROJECT rather than a PROJECT Haiku is incredibly impressive-- it's an OS truly designed from the ground up for graphical usage by humans. Additionally, it leapfrogs much of the pernicious technical debt that both *nix and Windows are subject to.
I just hope someone higher up is paying attention.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-11-28
Votes: 14
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I have been watching Haiku for quite awhile, and for the most part been pleased with the development. There are still items that need to be worked on, but looking forward to continuation of the project and the next beta release. Glad to see there are those who continue working for alternative operating systems, it's good to have more choice our side of both Windows and Unix/Linux.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-11-27
Votes: 42
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I've been 'playing' with Haiku for a month. Who wouldn't get hooked on the speedy response of the desktop? Haiku has impressed me enough to seriously consider getting involved in coding for the development project. That's saying a lot! I have trouble with Webpositive crashing and I'm still looking into that. Some of the other apps don't yet run and I'm really tempted to learn this magic filesystem to find out why.
I run Haiku on older quad core systems that were originally created as home theater PCs, keeping with the current trend of low power multi processor systems. The single user system design is ideal for the majority of my clients. I'm currently assessing it's usability for micro controller development, once I get that working, I'll be using Haiku on a daily basis.
I give the the promise of Haiku, becoming mainstream, 10 out of 10 and, it's current state 7 out of 10.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-11-09
Votes: 4
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Finally we get a 64 bit version of Haiku. Running it on an old T400 Thinkpad. Wireless works, perfect loud sound, good graphics. Qmmp works better in Haiku than Mint 18.3. Problems with Webpositive locking up on some sites. Qupzilla works good though, really looking forward to getting more bugs worked out. Would be great if it was possible to get Firefox or Chrome working in it. Overall it looks great. I really like Webpositive but still buggy. Great effort, kudos to the Haiku team!!! Keep up the good work. and yea I'll be making another donation soon!
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-10-19
Votes: 12
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I learned about Haiku two days back. The look and feel is awesome (the icon scaling is good and their retro look is what I like). The OS is lightning fast and has Ethernet support out of the box, (but it refuse to recognize it sometimes, disabling and then enabling it two or three times seems to do the job).
When I read about it is targeting personal computing I was pretty happy as I am not a power user and most of my work require Presentations, PDF documents, Word documents, Spreadsheets, and some light coding. LibreOffice is present but it is still buggy, Calligra suite offer the work options, and it was working fine at the time of this review. MediaPlayer is present but if you try to import too many songs >50 then it will crash, also sometimes it took it some time to recognize my speakers (sometimes I have to reboot). WebPositive is laggy.
There is one peculiarity I noticed that when I was opening any file by double clicking or right click->open option, it was not opening and directly going to expander (in built archive manager), but if I open a file through it's related app it works.
I have to commend the Haiku teams on DE as you get used to it in no times (lightning fast is it's thing)
Overall as we know it's the first beta, and from the looks of it is going to be a good OS if the development keeps on going.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-10
Votes: 2
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For a non-Linux operating system, I can see why other people struggle to become used to Haiku's desktop environment, But I've got to say as a long time Linux user for over 15 years, I have been interested in Haiku's development since 2012 and its pleasing integration of its kernel, applications and background services is something that is seriously worth having a look at, which many desktop Linux distros should have done but still fail to do so.
I'm impressed by the several open source apps available in Haiku thanks to its package manager. I am able to do more with this OS than previously in Alpha 4, which was just a non-starter for anyone hoping for any productivity. Would like to see Chrome or Firefox ported soon. I would also definitely be interested in support for ARM boards or RISC-V support,
However, the UI still seems to be dated but I'm sure that this should improves once it gets proper GPU support via a DRM port. Security is still immature, KDLs occur on some apps, etc.
A 9/10 for overall for usability, apps and integrated system apps.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 4
Date: 2018-10-09
Votes: 0
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I don't know is it good for anything. Interesting for testing in qemu. Where is firewall software and antivirus software? Anyway, it is interesting but seriously? Not for me.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-10-05
Votes: 6
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Hard to fault this - particularly as it's NOT Linux and for various reasons I'm not that fond of the Linux kernel or its recent approaches. I'm a bit stuffed right now as the machine I'd put aside for it needs WiFi and the BSD wireless drivers don't target it. The installer seemed quick but needs work too - however, it's not out of beta so we shouldn't be unduly harsh.
What was most notable was the utter speed this thing manages. Running on an oldish Atom-based netbook it absolutely smokes Linux in so many ways. I'd like to do a comparative benchmark but I don't really have time. Anecdotally though, it runs like a demon almost comparable to the OS running on my i3 on VirtualBox. Pleasantly surprising and testament to just how fast even these older processors actually ARE if programmers weren't so lazy with their C++ coding. I come from the 8-bit era of programming where every clock pulse counted and Haiku feels like it's taken some of those skills and wrapped a modern OS around them.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-03
Votes: 15
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I'm currently running Haiku on my 10-year old laptop.
The first thing that appealed to me even before having it installed was that you don't have to search around for checksums when you want to verify a downloaded image. They are offered right on the download page.
Downloaded and verified, I dd-ed the image onto a USB key and then booted from that without a problem.
There's one thing to know about booting from writeable media, though. Once you've selected your language and keymap in the "Welcome to Haiku!" dialog window, it will be stored on the device. So, if you abort an installation later and boot from the device again, you'll be taken to Haiku's live desktop immediately and have to run the installer again from there. This should probably be changed.
As I had already destroyed the partition table on my machine's hard drive, I simply set up one BFS-formatted partition in DriveSetup and then proceeded with the installation. As far as I can remember, I've never had an operating system install that fast. But then, there are also no further options to choose from during the installation process. It simply does its thing.
Being done with the installation, I rebooted from the internal hard drive, which was reasonably fast. I then had a look into HaikuDepot, the package manager, was surprised to find Otter Browser there and installed it immediately. Even though it pulled in lots of dependencies, disk usage of the whole system was only at around 3GB when the installation had finished.
Haiku's GUI surely takes a bit of getting-used-to and reading the manual if you're new to it. But it's probably worth it. For example, it offers window tabbing (they call it stacking) and tiling.
While Haiku is not able to boot into the command-line and generally meant to be operated through the GUI, you can still open up a terminal. Haiku's default shell is Bash (with kind of an odd prompt) and GNU coreutils are there by default as well.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-01
Votes: 2
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It is good to know that Haiku shows improvement over the time.
With more developers and monetary capital the distribution will become a nice and competitive system.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 3
Date: 2018-10-01
Votes: 2
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Tried haiku-release-anyboot.iso. Quite different. No task bar. Just Icons on the desktop. And right clicking with lots of menu chasing. It would take some getting used to. It has the Windows 95 type look to it and is totally themeable, colour-wise, right in the 'Appearance' settings. No themes to download. And very, very fast. There IS a home folder but it appears that you have to create your own Documents, Music, Pictures, etc., folders as I couldn't find any pre-made.
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Version: R1-beta1
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-01
Votes: 7
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This OS has so much potential. Come on developers, developers, developers!
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-09-25
Votes: 3
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I never used BeOS and installed Haiku in a VM just out of curiosity. Despite it's weird GUI I found it very pleasing, the idea of a concise OS behind it is very interesting and promising, I'm learning to program and will certainly give it a shot as a volunteer.
I really wish it to turn into a viable OS as an alternative to the existing ones, new views and ideas on operating systems are welcome :)
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-07-30
Votes: 6
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I am using Haiku R1-alpha4 64 bits hrev52139 on bare metal (old sony laptop) and Virtualbox. Revison (hrev) number is only valid today, as updates are coming on a daily basis, so tomorrow will be a new revision "hrev".
Taking into account that it's still alpha stage, what I can say about Haiku is:
1- The BeOS look and feel is there as I remember from the 90's on that Performa 6400/180 I used BeOS at that time.
2- It is fast. Boots fast, is responsive on VirtualBox and much better on the laptop. This is true until Qt apps are installed. I presume these Qt apps compatibility layer lowers the speed a bit.
3- Everything needed for common daily use is there. Native apps and now a plethora of Qt (Calligra office, Krita, Kdevelop, Kstars, Qtcreator...),
4- The desktop is consistent in its concept and its translation to Haiku's native apps. Qt ports try to keep it as "Haiku" as possilbe, and they achieve it to a great extent.
5- Network printing still has some issues, as well as accessing Network storage.
6- Video out on the laptop is causing issues, though developers are addressing it and it will be solved quickly.
7- Window management has features that no other DE has today.
8- The Concept behind the scenes is amazingly straightforward for common users
9- No multiuser and security yet
PROS
Easy to use, Fast, Consistent, Clean, Straightforward
CONS
Unstable at some point (64 bit version), but usable for everyday tasks. Some might say DE is outdated though this is a matter of taste
Haiku's potential is becoming a reality.
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 6
Date: 2018-06-15
Votes: 1
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I was lucky enough to have BeOS 5 on a PC back when it was a faster, more stable alternative to Win 98, and I loved it.
Unfortunately Haiku is still very much alpha quality software.
Pros: Look great.
Runs really fast
Cons: Really unstable (fair enough too, it is an Alpha).
I really hope this gets to the stage where it is usable as an everyday OS. Getting LibreOffice working is a great step forward, even if it didn't work for me.
Good luck Haiku-nauts.
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-12-08
Votes: 0
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Too bad it doesn't get more love from developers. All it needs is a modern Gui on top and some good apps. It's blazing fast. 3d graphics support and all the rest will come as time goes by.
I used to be a BeOS user back in the day and still have their original CD. It is the only OS I ever felt attached to. I never felt the same love for OSX or Linux.
I hope it gets the same love as Linux but they need to make this usable
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 5
Date: 2017-11-13
Votes: 0
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Good effort.........but, I am sorry, I do not think that this will ever be a viable operating system. By the time it is ready for general consumption it will already be so out of date (from a hardware point of view), that the developers will never be able to stay on top.......and then it will just disappear like so many others.
I do admire what they are trying to accomplish, I just do not think that it is realistic. I first tried this "distro" about seven years ago and it is still miles away from being ready for "prime time". It has been "nearly there" forever and I doubt it will get any better than that.
Good luck, I keep checking in on progress over the years, but "snails pace" would be fast by comparison.
I gave this 5 for effort.
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-02-27
Votes: 6
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When beta version is out, they might be able to GO BEYOND BeOS
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Version: R1-alpha4
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-01-21
Votes: 15
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I use haiku latest builds 32b and 64b. It needs more hardware compatibility and some office apps but its nearly there.
Still the best OS.
And i have seen a LOT.
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