Haiku Testing

Lately I've been testing the nightly builds of Haiku again. It's getting there. My old laptop (eMachines M6805 upgraded with 1GB memory and 100GB 7200rpm HDD) which didn't work right with BeOS due to driver issues is already mostly supported. Video, wired network, USB mouse all didn't work in BeOS but worked on first boot in Haiku. I finally managed to get BeOS Max installed on the old laptop and then used BeOS to put a bootable Haiku partition on it as well. Ran bootman to allow for booting into whichever OS I picked and it just worked. Ok not perfect yet. There's still work being done on Haiku, and if you try hard enough you can find lots of things that don't work yet in Haiku. But what they are looking for is bug reports for things that "haven't" already been reported. Checking the bug report list you'll see many bugs are being fixed daily now. And with the 8 Google Summer of Code students also hacking away we should see some more things working real soon now. Also in the works is SATA support which will then allow me to do testing on my newer laptop (A Gateway 7118MX). I am using it for testing as well but in vmware inside Ubunutu.