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    anyone tried Haiku .

    I installed it and played around with a few hours. my old laptop seems to be unhappy with several linux distros and BSDs so I figured I might as well test haiku and to my surprise it works , sound does not but everything else does.
    its interesting and runs pretty decent on my old laptop other than the sound issue . not so many packages yet.

    I think this could be interesting when it gets out og beta testing stages.

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    Re: anyone tried Haiku .

    My old 32-bit Pentium-M Dell D800 seemed to run well with Haiku OS the last time I tried it out via Live CD (or was it Live-DVD?). Last time I checked, everyone was still working with nightly builds with no new release or release candidate for a couple of years. I wish the project well, but it seems to me that there is more to do than the devs have time for. I'll have to check up on Haiku!
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    Re: anyone tried Haiku .

    its actually not a bad system but its a single user system and its a little different than linux but I really think this operative system is fast and pretty cool and it works on my older hardware so I hope the project advances. I am watching some youtube videos about the system , its actually pretty neat.

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    Re: anyone tried Haiku .

    Don't you just hate when your typing fingers work faster than your brain? I'd forgotten the Beta1 release from September 2018. Glad Haiku is progressing.
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    Re: anyone tried Haiku .

    yeah I do that a lot as well. however I been wathing some youtube reviews of haiku and the story behind it. it does look very interesting and the more I play with it the more it becomes a viable alterntive to linux on low end laptops , perhaps not as secure but its ligthening fast compared to other distributions I been trying to get working on that old laptop.
    I like its a single user system and I do not have to enter passwords all the time . I found out how to disable the ssh login and I also found out how to format a usb drive when I was playing with it a while ago.

    I think I will start using it as often as possible for everyday stuff , until I figure out if I can get sound working on it. I saw some usb soundcards would work and I happen to have a few old soundcards lying around I want to see if they work.

    haiku is pretty neat but I dont think its going to rival linux anytime soon to be honest .

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