Good to see other people talking about Haiku ... though I laughed my head off when I read "Windows users must think the same thing about Linux until they first Google for it and realise the internet is Linux." Wow ... the internet is linux eh ? Cheers Sikosis On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Richie Nyhus <richienyhus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The linux format magazine (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk) has reviewed haiku. > > "30 days with Haiku - An open source BeOS clone looking to take on the > desktop: will it give Linux some friendly competition? We find out. > (Graham Morrison)" > > Read it here: > http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/beos-reborn-30-days-with-haiku-465275 > > A few posts about it on the ubuntu forums here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=929691 > > -------- > > Some extracts > > "Haiku is nowhere near being considered a finished product, but it's > now stable enough for everyday use." > > "I first try the Haiku online documentation, but the freefall state of > development that Haiku is in means there's no documentation for > prospective users, only documentation to help developers." > > "Most users seem to be using Haiku as a genuine desktop replacement, > doing the same things we normally do on our Linux desktop. " > > "I can't criticise Haiku. It's in a rapid state of development and no > one is claiming it's anywhere near a productivity level. But it's very > close, and you can't help feeling that a little user-oriented > documentation and packaging could go a long way." > > "Similar to Apple's OS X, applications don't quit when you click on > the top-left 'close' icon, for example. Instead, they tuck themselves > away in the small toolbar, and can be brought back to life at any > moment. To quit an application, you must click on the toolbar icon and > select Close from the pop-up menu." > > "The advantage to all this minimalism is speed. Windows are quick to > open and move. Most applications and tools load immediately (an > exception is Firefox), and the whole system can reboot in under 10 > seconds. Real hardware will be even faster. This is the computer > desktop we should always have had." > >