alt Hacker NewsI tried for years to get this operating system to run on my hardware. Last year I succeeded.
Only...there was no software. The system ran beautifully. But I had no web browser that was supported. All the software seemed to be ports from Linux and didn't seem to take advantage of Haiku's advantages.
I had a good speedy operating system that booted almost immediately to the desktop. But nothing to do when I got there.
BeOS back when I tried it in the V5.0 days had software written for it. There weren't multiple options for everything but there was variety. There was usefulness in the radio broadcasting software, the video editors that worked even on my POS box back in 1998/99. When the PE was released I'd hoped that would result in even more software becoming available. But no, it was shut down not too long after that. (I'll skip the whole YellowTab fraud saga.)
The situation seems even worse these days. It's been almost thirty years. Time to let go.
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> But I had no web browser that was supported.
This might be a new development, but there's like 3 different forks of Firefox that are packaged. See: `pkgman search firefox`, or something like that. I used Floorp, and it worked well, especially considering it was running with 4 gigabytes of RAM on a VM on a system that already had a bunch of applications open.
Not my experience. I tried to install on an old Asus Eee and everything worked on first try.
There's a web browser (Web Positive) that works good enough given the available resources on this machine.
The system itself runs very nicely on this hardware. I tried to install Linux there first but I wasn't able to find any 32 but distro with GUI that would fit on 4GB eMMC.
Now I have a neat small machine that supports what I need from it and I'm thinking of putting it on some more powerful HW.
As of a year ago there was an up to date Firefox port, not sure if they kept it up to date however.
I think you're directionally right but the bit about the web browser confused me. Haiku ships with WebPositive. You'll remember NetPositive from the R5 days. That's one of the few things Haiku does have.