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I'm amazed! On a whim, I tried installing it to my old ASUS EEE 7" netbook. Everything seems to work! Haiku just breathed new life into that old device.

I have the opposite problem. I hate GUI bullshittery. With the command-line I can string together multiple tools with options to work the way I need them to.

If you throw in a tool with nothing but a fancy GUI, I can't simply pipe data through it. I have to find buttons to click, search for hidden menus, resize windows, etc. What a waste of time! Give me a man page any day!

He says Excel is superior because it makes charts easier? Guy is in the wrong field. Learn some octave or matlab.

Since this is like the old floppy disk days, where any disk could be infected, would a version of the same solution apply? I'm thinking of the old boot-sector protectors that would announce your disk is clean, thereby occupying the space a virus would otherwise claim. Of course there would have to be something in place to verify this wasn't just malware calling itself a protector.