Haiku R1/beta4
3 days ago, I installed Haiku on bare metal: an old PC from ~2004. I was not aware that a new version was planned at that time, but the upgrade was completely smooth.<p>My idea when I installed Haiku was to make my own version of the "old computer challenge"[1], with an emphasis on using GUI apps.<p>Similarly to @probono (a FOSS dev), I also found Haiku "shockingly good"[2] at being a lightweight, responsive, easy-to-use desktop OS.<p>After some patching, I was even able to compile Tectonic[3], a modern LaTeX engine written in Rust, and Quaternion a Matrix client supporting E2EE[4]. All that running on a single core Athlon 64 and 1.5GB of RAM.<p>I posted some screenshots in a Mastodon threads if you are curious[5] (but my posts are in french sorry :/). And of course this comment is posted from Haiku!<p>[1]: <a href="https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challenge.html" rel="nofollow">https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challe...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-first-day-with-haiku-shockingly-good-8930cad4bbb0" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-first-day-with-haiku-shocki...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/" rel="nofollow">https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion">https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion</a><p>[5]: <a href="https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@tgoldoin/109554115997967651" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@tgoldoin/109554115997967651</a>