I am a bit confused navigating this site. I can find Download section for Resources and Tools, but I can’t find download section for the OS itself.
I am a real newbie here; thus, I really do not know where to get Haiku.
Is there someone to tell me where it is?
Thanks a lot
id-Joe wrote:
I am a bit confused navigating this site. I can find Download section for Resources and Tools, but I can't find download section for the OS itself. I am a real newbie here; thus, I really do not know where to get Haiku. :cry: Is there someone to tell me where it is? Thanks a lot
As Haiku is not the creation of a new OS, but rather the re-creation of the BeOS, there is not yet a full “OS” that can be downloaded and used, but instead many replacement pieces for BeOS 5.x and much progress on the kernel and remainder of the OS.
In short, while the OS is not yet “complete” you can already begin replacing many portions of BeOS Pro/PE 5.x or one of the community-created distros of BeOS (BeOS MAX, DevEd, etc.) with Haiku components.
Unfortunately, I am not up-to-date on what works and what doesn’t - MYOB has a good list of those items, hopefully he will chime in 
There is (or was) a boot floppy that booted into the Haiku kernel/CLI… and there was some talk of an ISA-IDE booting version of the kernel working (in Bochs?)…
I wasn’t fair in my prior post… see some of the following links:
Thread with some good “getting started” info:
http://haiku-os.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1623
From that thread, some links:
http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=nsl_view&id=52
http://home.tiscali.nl/mahlzeit/gettingstarted.html
and hopefully if the Haiku wiki comes back (non-functional since server move):
http://haiku-os.org/wiki/index.php?title=GetHaiku
and until the proper Build Factory link is fixed on the Haiku mainsite, use the following URL to get to the packages:
The build factory still isn’t sync’d right with the webserver, the build factory page now just has a link to that IP of Sikosis’ box.
Well the biggest reason a complete OS is not available for download yet is shown here.
Instead of most OS projects Haiku is not build up for the start, but different parts of the OS are being worked on simultanously. Not before the most vital of these parts are in somewhat beta status there will be no 100% Haiku only OS working or available…