I have been interested in Haiku for awhile but could not get it to install. Last week I finally realized that I could run it in a VirtualBox instance so I start

I have been interested in Haiku for awhile but could not get it to install. Last week I finally realized that I could run it in a VirtualBox instance so I started trying it out. I like it... very simple UI, very clean, and very fast. It comes with many Unix-like shell utilities including scp and ssh. git is installed. There is a graphical text editor and something resembling a package manager that will allow you to fetch vim. The web browser is a bit lacking/weird/not-sure-how-to-describe, but reading through the installation manual it appears that many Wifi chipsets are supported via BSD drivers. Press shift when booting if you can't get anywhere, and definitely read the manual. There are few necessary concepts to learn... Really reminds me of Mac OS 7-9, but much more stable and a better user interface. I'm considering using it for back-end web development (as most of my work is server-based). I'm not concerned about Flash anymore so that is a non-issue.