I installed Haiku R1Alpha2 onto my desktop PC* last night. I've not tried it for a little while, and you know what? It's completely usable! All the basics work, and work well. Video, sound, power management, networking etc. My TV card doesn't work (WinTV PVR-150) and neither does my bluetooth dongle, but it's as usable now as BeOS R5 was (with slightly limited application support, I can't get some of my old favourites to work; BePac gives an error about fonts, SoundPlay says something's missing).
I'm really looking forward to using this full time. I have a ThinkPad X30 which should run it quite well too :-) I'd better get to helping them out and fixing some bugs! (I'll start small)
I miss BeOS, Haiku's reminded me how awesome it was. The new WebPositive browser has made quite a difference too, it's much better than NetPositive was, and more stable than FireFox.
*It's an AMD Athlon XP if you're curious, 640MB DDR RAM, 80Gb PATA HD, ATI Radeon 9520 (I think)
