Linked by bcavally on Mon 21st Dec 2009 17:18 UTC
Today there are many operating systems available. Every vendor or community round it tries to make it as good as possible. Having different goals, different legacy and different cultures, they succeed in it more or less. We (end users) end up with big selection of operating systems, but for us the operating systems are usually compromise of the features that we would like to have. So is there an operating system that would fit all the needs of the end user? Is is the BeOS clone Haiku?
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RE[4]: Needs to overcome original hurdle...
by Michael Oliveira on Mon 21st Dec 2009 23:08
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RE[4]: Needs to overcome original hurdle...
by mlankton on Mon 21st Dec 2009 23:10
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RE[5]: Needs to overcome original hurdle...
by StephenBeDoper on Mon 21st Dec 2009 23:22
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No, I suppose I should take a look to see if the ported wireless drivers include my chip and try it on the laptop. Only tried it in Virtualbox so far.
If you have spare thumbdrive kicking around, "Haiku on a Stick" is a good way to try Haiku on real hardware (even though the name makes it sound like a Jimmy Dean product):
http://www.modeen.se/HaikuOnAstick.htm
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2005-07-06
I think it's only Qt apps that have been ported, rather than KDE apps. My understanding is that Qt is designed to be cross-platform and has no real dependence on X.
Have you tried Qt on Haiku yet? I believe the port is still just an Alpha, but the Qt apps I've tried already integrate quite well in terms of look-and-feel. I'd be hard-pressed to distinguish between a native Haiku app and a Qt app running on Haiku.