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Although my Ethernet has shown up, there seems to be issues with the wireless drivers.

I ran ifconfig /dev/net/rtl81xx/0 scan, and was told it wasn't a WLAN device (I suspect that it's referring to my Ethernet driver, and Haiku honestly has no idea where my wireless is)

I don't know what to do here (the Live environment also had this issue)

The other thing to note is the finicky nature in which my Lenovo Thinkpad E480 boots Haiku, which is that it only works if the live environment flash drive is also plugged in. Intel cites a media test failure. It also appears that Haiku doesn't show up in the boot menu, which I find extra concerning.

I want to try out Haiku on my old Packard Bell pc, but it always gives me this error when booting up the installer.

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Hello, when I try the boot the white screen appear slowly. I tried the all safe mod options, but it doesn't work. What can I do? This is the white screen.

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My system is:

2x 256 MB RAM

İntel Pentium M 1.70 GHz

İntel 82852/ 55 graphics controller

Thank you.

because “HaiQ” kinda sounds like “Haiku”?

Just curious.

Was following this thread https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/progress-on-porting-firefox/13493 and saw that an experimental port of Firefox is now available for the nightly builds. Did the necessary steps and it runs quite well now. A few glitches here and there but already much better than the alternatives. Kudos to the Haiku devs.

Is it true that Haiku is getting bloated more & more with things like X11 and other trash dragged here from the ancient world of unix & linux for just the sake to run some old programs?

What if I wish to get absolutely 100% fresh Haiku OS absolutely free from trash, only pure Haiku and nothing else?
then it should be possible to compile the system to filter out all the trash which I'm mentioning here?
Thanks.

I just got a Fujitsu touchscreen laptop and the OS installs brilliantly. Works so well, except the touchscreen part. Anyone knows how to get that working?

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what happened to Haiku OS? why are all its sites down?

Hey there - I've been running Haiku b5 on my Dell Lattitude E5570 with great success for a couple of months. I installed fresh a couple of weeks after release, and have kept it up to date, enjoying KDE ports, configured near everything how I like - dosbox is running great - youtube works; a fantastic step forward for an experimental daily driver.

I've managed to break the background/wallpaper feature though! At some point in the last few weeks, I've lost the ability to set a background image.

I can set backgrounds through the Background app, but they never actually appear in the background. The settings 'take', and if I close and reopen the app, the background image I previously selected is set etc. I have of course played with the scaling and x/y positioning - the image never appears in the desktop background. The image is not displayed in the preview box where you can preview the image or the background color being set, either.

This happens with the built in wallpapers, as well as any random jpeg I download to test. I can, however, change the color of the background with the Background app - its just the wallpaper is never actually 'painted' on the background of the desktop.

Does anyone have any idea of what I could possibly do to troubleshoot this?

Edit: Solved with the help of u/cpr420 : haiku_datatranslators was not installed

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I am compiling the latest Haiku on HaikuOS, and when I execute the following command, I get an error saying it cannot find the header file <unicode/uversion.h>. Online it says the header file comes from ICU, which I have actually installed. However, find / | grep uversion.h cannot find the header file. This error occurs when executing the following command:

jam -q -j2 @nightly-anyboot 

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image is a screenshot of a file showing up in linux but not in haiku os

i apologize for thw poor image quality, but hope youd still understand whats going on. tracker does not show files with names written in a different language if the file came from a usb. i scoured the haiku ticket system, nothing relevant showed up. i installed icu73 in case the issue has some issue wiyh character encoding, but nothing showed up again. i gotta ask for assistance if you guys would know anything about the issue. thanks

Generally, when authors write software, they usually consider testing on systems like FreeBSD, Darwin, Linux, and Windows, and use macros like #ifdef WIN, #ifdef UNIX to achieve adaptation. So, how does Haiku manage to run software when the software authors haven't considered such a niche system?
Also, could you recommend some systems like Haiku to me? It indeed has the capability for production use rather than being just a toy, which is amazing.

Source code of HydraRansomCheck: HaikuRansomware/HydraRansomCheck/HydraRansomCheck at main · HydraDragonAntivirus/HaikuRansomware

Video: https://youtu.be/cvKeyhhMqFw

For spoiler look description of video. Ear rape warning for: 0:34

HydraDragonAntivirus/HaikuRansomware: World's First Haiku Ransomware/Malware

If I made a mistake, please tell us. It's probably first Ransomware project for Haiku.

Hi all! Computer enthusiast here; builder of many computers from a typical gaming rig to the Gigatron. I've worked with Haiku in the past, and remember having one heck of a time trying to find hardware that'd let the installer work all the way through. But I still really like the idea of a dedicated haiku box that's modern enough to be usable for things like web browsing (webpositive and falkon are good enough, I can always listen to YouTube music on my phone), word processing and MAYBE some light coding. I'd love to replace my little daily driver chromeOS box (an old i5 Dell) with a haiku box. So, that being said, does anyone have a PC part picker list, or a list at all, for parts for a modern haiku box that'll meet my application needs? It doesn't need to be screaming fast, but preferably not sluggish and something that'd be comfortable to use!

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