Haiku Beta 3

I decided to try out Haiku last week. I was positively surprised how fast the whole process was. Installer loaded, system was installed and rebooted in about 20-30 seconds (not accounting for human I&#x2F;O latency). And this was in a VM with SATA disk backing.<p>Makes you yearn for simpler times.

Free version of BeOS rewritten from scratch using the API levels for compatibility. One step closer to public release.

I was very impressed with the last version I tried earlier this year. It was fun to use.<p>I uninstalled it because I needed to get back to a system I knew better for a while. For one minor detail, QMMP had some freezing bug, but man I loved that haiku skin. I guess it&#x27;s time to try it again and see how it goes with the various use cases.<p>&gt; improvements to Wi-Fi networking to match FreeBSD 13<p>Just curious, why this match in particular? Was it a goal of some kind or is this mainly a reference freebie due to the reuse of some component?

Perhaps I would like to build a dedicated Haiku box.<p>What is the optimal hardware configuration to run Haiku on bare metal? I don&#x27;t mean as cheap as possible, I mean as compatible as possible and also rather performant.<p>The release notes mention nVidia GeForce 6200 - GeForce Go 6400 graphics cards - are these the best for Haiku?

I have a Haiku installation here and it is having trouble upgrading to Beta 3. Anyone having trouble as well?<p>What I&#x27;m seeing are some package resolution errors. Things like haikuwebkit higher version wanting beta 3 (which is not yet installed), and giving me options to keep my old version or ignore it.

There is something about the text rendering in the screenshots that makes the GUI look 20 years old. What is it exactly? Anti-aliasing?

What I really want to see ported to Haiku is Electron. I don&#x27;t like Electron itself and feel like its non-native look&amp;feel would pollute Haiku aesthetics, nevertheless Electron would open the doors to Visual Studio Code and Obsidian which are worth a lot.

Nvidia support? Something like the old nv driver for X under Unix?

Do we have USB audio drivers yet?

I think at this point I&#x27;m on the fourth consecutive laptop that this just won&#x27;t ever boot on. This time, however, it just says &quot;Haiku&quot; on a splash screen and then stops completely. No errors, no debug message window, nothing.<p>(At this point usually someone here insists that I file a bug. Which I won&#x27;t do because a) I have no useful information to put into a bug report and b) I think after <i>eleven years</i> of this nonsense it&#x27;s probably in there about 200 times already anyway.)<p>Oh, look. Can&#x27;t even press the space bar to get an unintelligible error anymore.