Hi Haiku Community.
I have two Questionen with Version of Haiku IS better the x86 or x86_64. The second question is can I Run Haiku on my MacBook Pro M1 or Raspberry Pi 5.
Greetings
Egor
The ARM port of Haiku is incomplete,so it will not boot on a M1 Macbook or a Raspberry.
On x86 computers,I think most people use the x86_64 version nowadays.
Old BeOS applications are only supported on 32bit x86,but they are mostly irrelevant by now.
Also,32bit CPUs obviously only support the 32bit x86 Haiku version,but these aren’t that common anymore.
If you have a modern CPU and don’t need BeOS apps,I recommend going with the 64bit version that makes better use of the resources on modern systems (allowing to use more than 4GB memory for example).
Very big applications like Iceweasel (Firefox) and the latest WebKit versions are only available for x86_64,since the limit of 4GB memory on x86 isn’t enough to compile them.
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To run Haiku on your M1 Macbook you need to run Haiku virtualized/emulated. I normally use Haiku (stable) installed on a Lenovo ThinkPad but for nightly builds I use UTM https://mac.getutm.app/ to create a virtual machine to test the nightly builds on my M4 Mac mini.
There are some quirks to install Haiku in UTM but a minute or two on google should get you the answers (I don remember them right now).