Someone asked me about trying out the Haiku operating system a couple days ago. They were interested in trying it out, but didn't know how to go about doing it, so I decided I would make a video. This video shows you how you can run Haiku-OS (an open source version of the wonderful BeOS) on your Windows machine using the free software Vmware Player.
In case you are too lazy to watch the video, these are the steps to achieve success.
1. Obtain and install VMware Player for free from www.vmware.com/downloads (Installation requires reboot).
2. Obtain Haiku-OS vmware image (NOT RAW HDD IMAGE!) from www.haiku-os.org/downloads
3. Uncompress the Haiku-OS files, double click on the configuration file.
4. If prompted, select the virtual drive image.
5. Success! Haiku OS will boot in the virtual machine. Press Ctrl-Alt to change between controlling your computer and the virtual machine.
Haiku-OS is a really nice alternative operating system. I was a big fan of the original BeOS back in 1999-2001. It's really cool that there's still a community supporting BeOS (which by every account was a much better OS compared to Windows in its day).
