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puppetmaster | 7 years ago

Gentlepeople... the time to try Haiku is now! get an image, and boot it. Out of 10 machines with different ages, all but one get to desktop in a few seconds. For the one that gets to a blank screen equally fast, make sure to press <space> on boot and choose vesa.

Browsers? Usable for the focused mind, lots of wip... For me, I have text editors, compilers, a terminal, and aws cli... I can wish for more, but I am happy with this.

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tinco|7 years ago

Is it safe to boot on an expensive laptop like a MacBook? I remember when Linux had missing drivers there were risks that you'd overheat your machine because the laptop manufacturer was controlling a system fan in some nonstandard way.

waddlesplash|7 years ago

Macbooks >= ~2013 or so will run into this kernel panic shortly after boot: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/13189

2012 and earlier Macbooks pretty much work, I'm told (though you will hit the remaining NEC/Renesas bug I mentioned in the blog post, so use a USB2 drive until we manage to debug that.)

But yes, generally our hardware support is not quite as good as Linux's, so you will have a mixed bag in Macbooks. High-end PC laptops (e.g. Dell XPS 13) are fine.

EDIT: According to the comment below, it seems I was misremembering, and these problems occur on 2015-and-up Macbooks, not 2013-and-up.

LIV2|7 years ago

MacBooks still control the fans in some nonstandard way so you need to install some software to control the fans for you, not sure if it exists for haiku though

jesikat|7 years ago

I've booted Haiku on a 27" 5K Retina iMac, 6th gen i7 without too much hassle. The AMD graphics didn't work, so needed VESA mode.

themodelplumber|7 years ago

I just tried it for a few weeks, ending last week. It wasn't bad at all, though individual apps had various bugs such that the experience often came down to same-app-on-Haiku vs. same-app-on-Linux. Also, while I liked being able to join different apps into one tabbed window, the other workspace features in Linux DE's seemed even more useful.

So: I was surprised at how easy it was to end the experiment early and try out another Linux distro, even though I'll probably try out other Haiku releases in the future. The boot time and single-user configuration was definitely a nice break.