[haiku] Re: "30 Days With Haiku" from LINUX FORMAT magazine
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:18:18 +0100 CET
> > Didn't read through yet, but the few things I noticed seems to
> > imply he
> > didn't use an alpha image with the optional packages and had to
> > install
> > things by himself...
> > Hopefully when R1/alpha is out he'd like it more :)
> >
> Nice read. Any I got stuck at the same place: no internet. And
> VirtualBox disallowed me to use a network share so I had been stuck.
> No
Networking works in QEMU and vmware, there is no reason it wouldn't
there too...
What NIC does it emulare ?
Or do you mean sharing files via SMB from the host ?
> NetPositive or even a Links just to get some file to your system. And
> I
There is links as an optional package, you just need an image that has
them installed.
In fact if you put all optional packages you get 3 browsers (links,
NetSurf, Firefox).
I should probably comment out Links now...
> used back then an image straight from the haiku website. Not that I
But note the default image is meant at testing and finding bugs, so
more developers.
> complain, I'm looking into the alpha images since I'm interested to
> see
> where this goes especially since I always had desire to port my stuff
> also to BeOS if possible but at least a NetPositive in some temporary
> directory used only until the real puppy is in place would be
> helpful.
The alpha image does have Firefox and NetSurf IIRC.
> Reminds me that I need to once check out again how the development
> progressed. I'm just not daring to install these on a spare partition
> on
> my developer systems... I'm running cutting edge hardware :P
It's actually the best way to fix possible bugs :P
François.
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