So I installed Haiku on an old Lenovo T410. For the purpose of playing with Haiku, I bought a used 120GB SSD off eBay so as not to need to wipe an existing SSD.

I think it's quite delightful at first look, but now I want to actually do stuff with it. That means learning how to program it, and how to install and configure stuff.

Initial Questions 1

• How do I install vim
  • Posted a question at discuss.haiku-os.org
  • answer: pkgman install vim
  • vimrc is in ~/config/settings/vim/vimrc, I just put ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc as I have on Linux and then my ~/config/settings/vim/vimrc contains the one line source ~/.vimrc
• How do I edit the hosts file, or somehow give a local mapping of name to ip address (my router doesn't do this properly, so I use hosts files on my LAN).
  • It appears that hosts goes in /system/settings/network, which seems quite sensible once you know.