{"id":10721,"date":"2024-03-17T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:55:04","slug":"haiku-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/haiku-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku OS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone pointed me at this and I thought why not? I decided to have a go at installing it under Virtual Box. Here are my notes and links &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I found<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/get-haiku\/r1beta4\/\">Get Haiku<\/a> NB Even W11 count as x86 for some reason!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yMeTieCHvnk\">How to install Haiku on Virtual Box<\/a>, from which I learnt, you need a reasonable RAM, you need to use the installer to format and partition the disk. and reset the mouse. I found<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/guides\/virtualizing\/virtualbox\/\"> this at Haiku Community<\/a> which is a blog article. <em>Date: May 2025<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/guides\/virtualizing\/virtualbox\">a page on virtual box<\/a> from the community, the functionality of guest additions maybe a problem, specifically the screen size. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I then  wanted to <a href=\"http:\/\/paulscomputernotes.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/change-haiku-desktop-wallpaper.html\">change Haiku desktop wallpaper<\/a>, a video by Paul although most of this text is about making an image. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/docs\/userguide\/en\/applications\/webpositive.html\">WebPositive <\/a>is the name of the browser, although it&#8217;s currently hanging on my machine, HaikuDepot is the name of the repo manager, and I have installed Otter, and will look for Gnome Web<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BjRiBo9AyWo\">video commentary<\/a> by OTB, from which I have copied  this article&#8217;s featured image.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/356758\/add-custom-virtual-machine-icons-to-virtualbox\">install a custom icon into Virtual Box<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On May 2nd 2025, I found, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/get-haiku\/r1beta5\/#upgrading-from-r1beta4\">upgrading from r1 beta4<\/a> which documents the <code>pkgman<\/code> commands to reset the repo links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I need to see if we can make shared folders work, the screen is tiny and it seems unstable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asking how much RAM is required, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/guides\/virtualizing\/virtualbox\/\">Virtualizing virtualbox<\/a> on the Haiku site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HaIku-OS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HaIku-OS.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HaIku-OS.png 761w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/HaIku-OS-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On medium, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@shushill\/blog2-how-did-i-get-started-with-haiku-operating-system-as-a-open-source-software-618432a5e302\">a pointer to the top level haiku.org pages<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone pointed me at this and I thought why not? 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