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I’ve just had a quick play with running BeOS Haiku on the NC10.
Before I say anything else, I’m not seriously considering using this for any kind of work, it’s purely to play with. I’ve been watching BeOS Haiku for a while (though I never used BeOS in the past) and I like playing with various OS’s.
With the latest raw pre alpha image (15th January 2009) loaded onto a USB stick it’s actually working better than I expected.
The interface is rather nice as you get to use the full height of the screen as there are no bars on the top or bottom, just one in the top right.
And running off a slow USB stick it takes around 40 seconds to boot from pressing the power button.
What works:-
1) Screen, automatically works fine at 1024×600
2) Touchpad
3) Keyboard, including backlight control
4) USBDoesn’t work:-
1) WiFi and Ethernet
2) Bluetooth
3) SoundAnd the bad, well it’s a bit unstable. In that it kernel panics a lot, could be a bad USB stick though it has been problematic in the past.
If you feel like playing around with it and happen to have a spare USB stick below is a link to some easy instructions.
How to install Haiku to USB Flash Drive from WindowsHere’s a photo of my NC10 running Haiku and a couple of programs like Firefox and VLC.
I was planning on installing Haiku on my white nc10 once it arrives on Monday. I may just try the usb drive route it sounds safer 🙂
Haiku is just about to be released in Alpha status as a LiveCD this week. I’ve run it (gcc4 pre alpha versionupgrading weekly since spring) from an USB stick and there is major improvements both from the regular dev team and from Google Summer of Code projects and Haiku Code Drive.
/Dan
Ooh sounds like I should download the latest nightly and have another go.
Has there been any news regarding wireless?
I know there was some work done on the wifi stack a few months ago, though I’m wondering whether the Atheros card in the NC10 is (going to be) supported.I haven’t tried the WiFi since my apartment is pretty much wired to the gills with optics. I even have an Ethernet adapter for my Nintendo. I might be a bit paranoid 🙂 The syslog finds the Atheros network chip though. There is the FreeBSD HAL that should make a wide range of drivers available and the MadWiFi project for a HAL free driver.
/Dan
I haven’t tried the WiFi since my apartment is pretty much wired to the gills with optics. I even have an Ethernet adapter for my Nintendo. I might be a bit paranoid 🙂 The syslog finds the Atheros network chip though. There is the FreeBSD HAL that should make a wide range of drivers available and the MadWiFi project for a HAL free driver.
/Dan
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