I want buy this mainboard and cpu from one local shop:
http://www.alza.sk/intel-celeron-g440-d250791.htm
http://www.alza.sk/cfi-a8989-itx-leskly-d125973.htm
mainboard is mini itx for new intel sandy bridge cpu.
how suported is grapfx and sound and network chip i dont know… have somebody some experience with this hardware under HAIKU ?
This is by far, IMHO, the weakest link in getting Haiku into the users hands to show off how cool of an OS Haiku is… lack of a 100% known system one can buy off the shelf that Haiku runs on all cylinders. This is what has made me gently move away from an OS I think could be awesome.
I am a BeBox owner and really would love to use Haiku, even to a point where daily use of it would take place for some of my computing. But, finding a known system is like pulling teeth. Everyone always points to the haikuware hardware site but there is really limited information there on systems that will work. Nice idea for people to put their known systems and what works but with such a small user base, the data there is real old or limited.
Opinion… find a system that sells in the hundreds of thousands or millions, somewhat modern, and get Haiku running on it for those of us that want to explore Haiku. Being able to make our own system one day from this and that main board is fine but the Haiku platform will remain super small if that is all it caters to.
Heck, how about a Mac Mini… fairly cheap, millions of them, Intel based, we can have one known system out of the box that works with Haiku network and sound wise, etc…
I sure miss the BeBox days when you knew BeOS would run on the system you have.
TJ
[quote=macsociety]This is by far, IMHO, the weakest link in getting Haiku into the users hands to show off how cool of an OS Haiku is… lack of a 100% known system one can buy off the shelf that Haiku runs on all cylinders. This is what has made me gently move away from an OS I think could be awesome.
I am a BeBox owner and really would love to use Haiku, even to a point where daily use of it would take place for some of my computing. But, finding a known system is like pulling teeth. Everyone always points to the haikuware hardware site but there is really limited information there on systems that will work. Nice idea for people to put their known systems and what works but with such a small user base, the data there is real old or limited.
Opinion… find a system that sells in the hundreds of thousands or millions, somewhat modern, and get Haiku running on it for those of us that want to explore Haiku. Being able to make our own system one day from this and that main board is fine but the Haiku platform will remain super small if that is all it caters to.
Heck, how about a Mac Mini… fairly cheap, millions of them, Intel based, we can have one known system out of the box that works with Haiku network and sound wise, etc…
I sure miss the BeBox days when you knew BeOS would run on the system you have.
TJ[/quote]
I’d like to point this out, Haiku runs on more hardware then BeOS ever did. In fact Haiku runs on hardware that BeOS r4/r5 ran on and newer hardware as well.
What is really needed however is a Haiku chip set compatibility list. The answer is, Haiku runs on most newer hardware just fine. the only exception is video drivers and Nvidia is covered fiarly well till the 6xxxx series end and RadeonHD is currently underway.
I haven’t been following the nightlies, but is wifi support still Atheros-only?
I haven’t been following the nightlies, but is wifi support still Atheros-only?[/quote]
Nooo, Haiku supports every Wifi card that FreeBSD supports. Currently only WPA2 encryption is supported, as WEP has regressed.