Just tried it - Haiku rocks!

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Hi all -

I’m a first-timer here but have been following the project (“on and off”) for quite a while (waaay back when it was called OpenBeOS).

I downloaded the latest image and tried it in QEmu. Really good stuff - well done to all the devs!

Even at this early-ish stage, Haiku is remarkably solid. Oh, and I believe you made a great choice with the MIT license. There is lots of room in the "ecological niche" ( the BSD-ish / MIT "license niche" ) for very freely-licensed projects like this.

I bought a BeOS R.5 CD quite a while back and I seem to remember having some problems getting used to the "mouse navigation" with it (you know, left-click to do this, right-click to do that, etc). But with Haiku, I had no problems at all.

Well, umm … maybe one small one… :slight_smile:

One thing I was wondering with Haiku - is it possible to “minimise apps”, and if so, how? I can maximaise and close apps, but couldn’t seem to find how to minimise them. I have a 2-button mouse.

I’m sure that by this time next year, Haiku will be really hummin’ along - it’s great even now!

Bye for now, and keep up the great work!

  • latte
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Double clicking the title bar should hide the window. Since you can reopen it from the deskbar, this is functionally quite similar to OSX’s minimise to dock.

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Thats how its -meant- to work, but currently I believe it doesn’t

You get damned used to it, particulary if you use a Mac as well, and now the buttons being on the wrong side and doing the wrong stuff on Windows is a pain in the arse

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The buttons have always been on the wrong side in Windows!

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Hi again all -

Yes, I can confirm what MYOB said. Tried double-clicking on the title-bars (tried with left-button - didn’t work - and right-button - ditto).

Anyway - I imagine that probably won’t be all that difficult to fix.

I really do like Haiku. It’s great to see another open-source OS really coming along and making great progress! I’m running Linux at the moment. That’s ok, sure (and I enjoy it) but it’s great to have the “Haiku option” … :slight_smile:

  • latte