and,
can a newbie also use the nightly version?
What are the advantages of Haiku nightly?
Well, you get all the latest features and fixes. You get all the latest bugs as well, though… 
Normally, nightlies are very usable and stable. If you don’t want to be at the real bleeding (anyone remember the BeLeadingEdge?) I recommend watching the commit log, and study the changes since your current Haiku revision (hrev). If there are changes to the guts of the system (kernel etc.), I’d give it a few days to see if people report issues at Trac before updating.
If something goes wrong, you can always boot into the last working state.
In any case, once Beta6 is released I’ll stay with that until there’s a change I really want, and only then switch to nightlies.
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Yes, you can use it. Be advised however that:
* Nightly is always slower than a beta version because of additional debug information
* Nightlies break often
* If nightlies break you’d be expected to know how to report bugs and test if something is fixed (and not make a stink on the forum about it, as some users have done before)
* You need to be able to recover your system on your own (installing a previous version, booting older states etc)