Selling Linux to the Masses

[br073n]

I agree with both points of your assessment, Axeia. Thus, there is no answer for us with them, because there is no discernible progress. I had high hopes for Haiku, and tested it about a year ago. I learned how to burn their strange ISO format to a CD. No good at all for laptops, it is extremely good on other older hardware. They simply don't have the resources to keep up with Linux or even the BSDs.

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by br073n

I agree with both points of your assessment, Axeia. Thus, there is no
answer for us with them, because there is no discernible progress. I had
high hopes for Haiku, and tested it about a year ago. I learned how to
burn their strange ISO format to a CD. No good at all for laptops, it is
extremely good on other older hardware. They simply don't have the
resources to keep up with Linux or even the BSDs.

Hi
I had a play a few months ago with one of the vmware images. It's still
seems to be pretty active?
http://www.haiku-os.org/

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[br073n]

Okay, perhaps the choice of terms was ambiguous. Let me say: Little has changed in the past year in terms of moving toward a popular desktop OS. In the eyes of the common user, it's just a geeky toy, rather like Linux was some years ago, with nowhere near enough drivers from some of the most common hardware. I'm not in a position to help them much, because what I can contribute they don't need. I checked.