I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One netbook to use for my hobby “Commodore VIC 20” cross development.
It came with windows XP pre-installed, but I have never been a big fan of the OS - and looked at other options that could meet my needs.
Web browsing
Commdore VIC 20 Emulation (VICE)
Decent programmers editor with syntax highlighting
6502 cross assembler.
I tried Ubuntu linux, very nice - but VICE was always crashing and I couldn’t get to bottom of it.
I looked at what other platforms VICE was available for and saw BeOS listed there so off I went browsing.
This eventually lead me to the Haiku site, got pretty excited at what I saw 
So I downloaded the latest build and created a bootable USB installer for the Aspire One.
Made some space on the HDD for Haiku and proceeded to install - quite painless and all went well.
Updated my GRUB 2 bootloader to add Haiku along side WinXP / Linux.
Booted up into Haiku - the speed of booting up impressed me straight away, and those gorgeous looking Icons.
Off the bat my WiFi didn’t work but with a quick browse of the forums here revealed the answer - and a quick switch over from WPA to WEP security on the router and it kicked into life.
Spent the next few hours taking a tour of the OS and reading the Welcome / user guides to familiarise myself with things.
Downloaded BeVICE 2.2 installed and ran - worked well and no crashes
Have yet checked out things on the Editor with syntax highlighting yet, but I’m pretty confident that this base will covered by a package from the repository.
I also spotted somwhere that DASM Assembler is available, though I’ve not had time to follow up on this.
I also checked out YaBasic, very impressive as I don’t have much knowledge of programming languages other than 6502/z80 assembler and BASIC - so this will come in handy when I need to write some additional crossdev tools/utils for my VIC needs.
I had a few crashes here and there and the built-in Webcam and Mic don’t appear to work, but I can live with that for now.
So it’s looking good from my end for me to potentially migrate over to Haiku full time sometime soon.
Anyways I have waffled on quite a bit, but here’s a big thumbs up from me To Haiku and those involved in it’s on going development - great work
BTW this was posted via Haiku using Arora Web Browser (I prefer WebPositive but I had a few probs with it going to sleep on me).
I also use Vim sometimes.
Pe’s documentation mentions a “Goodies” pack needed for that, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Maybe get in contact with the Pe maintainers, the project paga is