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.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.Similarly to @probono (a FOSS dev), I also found Haiku "shockingly good"[2] at being a lightweight, responsive, easy-to-use desktop OS.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.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![1]: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challe...[2]: https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-first-day-with-haiku-shocki...[3]: https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/[4]: https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion[5]: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@tgoldoin/109554115997967651