I was able to finally install and play with Haiku. I have been meaning to do it for a while but Haiku doesn’t like ventoy and I wanted to install it in bare metal so I just wanted to get some basically e-waste to try it out.
I installed it yesterday in an old Dell Studio Hybrid from 2007. It is an old, quirky and interesting piece of hardware that I picked up for au$20.
After a few hiccups with the partition table, partitions and whatnot I managed to make a multi boot system (Win 7 ultimate, Linux Mint Mate 22.1 Xia, Haiku) but HAiku was missbehaving badly. Hogging a core and making it impossible to do much with the computer.
After a post, a few of you wonderful people came to the rescue, told me where to look, gave me some ideas and one by one I was able to resolve the issues. The last one being the Beta 5 refusing to let go of that core. Resolved by the suggestion of trying with one of the nightly images.
So after doing that and going back about 35 years playing Prince of Persia in the Studio Hybrid I can only say that Haiku will be a great OS to run in that system and that I can safely use it as my Shed PC.
But not only that. My niece has got for Christmas one of the modern retro PC Commodore 64 extreme that I told her was going to be a multi system running Win, Commodore Os 2 (debian based), Mint, and now I will be including Haiku in that list.
My goal is to make her experiment and be comfortable finding the best OS for each situation and not becoming tied to a brand ecosystem as well as using the resources both bare metal and under VM. While at the same time learning myself and using my brain.
Once again thank you for the wonderful work you do.
