Survey about Haiku and BeOS

Welcome to this survey about the operating systems Haiku and BeOS!

This survey is a part of my master thesis about the operating system Haiku at the FernUniversitaet in Hagen, the state-maintained distance teaching university in Hagen in Germany.
Your answers will be used for academic or research purposes. Furthermore, aggregated and anonymised results of this survey will be published in the internet and will become a part of my master thesis, which I may publish. The aggregated and anonymised results of this survey will be given to the Haiku Inc. and the Haiku community to enable them to find out more about the users and developers of the operating system Haiku. These information could be useful to optimize the further development of the operating system Haiku in order to meet the user requirements. Please note that your e-mail address, which you can optionally enter, will NOT be given to the Haiku Inc. and the Haiku community. If you optionally enter your e-mail address, then I may contact you to ask you some additional questions about Haiku or BeOS.

I will not send you any kind of commercial advertisement, neither by e-mail nor by any other medium.

All questions are optional, but it would be nice if you answer as many questions as possible.

If you have any questions about this survey, please do not hesitate to contact me: Miroslav.Stimac@gmx.de

Thank you very much!

Question 1: How much are you interested in Haiku OS in general?

not at all a little bit medium fairly very much

Question 2: How much are you interested in BeOS in general?

not at all a little bit medium fairly very much

Question 3: What is your most favourit operating system for x86 compatible computers?

Please select the operating system that you like most of all. It is not important whether you use it or not.

Question 4: What operating system do you mostly use on x86 compatible computers?

Please select the operating system that you use most of the time. It is not important whether you like it or not.

Question 5: Which of these operating systems do you use at least once per week on any kind of computers?

Multiple choices are possible.
AmigaOS
BeOS
BSD
Haiku
Linux
MacOS
QNX RTOS
SkyOS
Unix (besides BSD)
Windows
ZETA
Other

Question 6: How many hours have you been using BeOS or Haiku on average per week in the previous 365 days?

If you used both (BeOS and Haiku), then please sum up the times. hours per week.

Question 7: If you use Haiku or BeOS, then where do you use it?

Multiple choices are possible.
At home
At university, college or school
At work
I do not use Haiku or BeOS

Question 8: If you use Haiku, then how do you run it?

Multiple choices are possible.
Installed on a hard disk partition of a physical computer
Live CD
Live USB Stick or other flash memory
Raw Image used with QEMU
VM Image run in VMWare or VirtuaBox or an other Virtual Machine
I do not use Haiku or BeOS

Question 9: Had you been using BeOS before you became interested in Haiku?

Question 10: When did you begin to use BeOS or Haiku for the first time?

Please note: if you do not know the exact year, please select approximately the year.

year.

Question 11: If you use BeOS or Haiku, then for what purposes?

How often do you use applications in BeOS or Haiku for the following purposes?
never rarely sometimes often very often
2D design or 2D animation or graphic editing
3D design or 3D animation
Web application server
Browsing in the web
Development or programming of applications
Development or programming of computer games
Development or programming of HAIKU (kernel, GUI, services, translations, etc.)
Internet (general)
Music composing or editing
Office software
Playing computer games
Playing music
Playing videos
Sound editing
Web design
Web programming
Web server
Word processing
Writing e-mails
Other purposes
If other purposes, please describe them:

Question 12: How many hours per week do you spend on average for the development (programming, GUI, services, translations, localisations, documentation, community support, etc.) of Haiku?

If you are not developing Haiku, please select 0 hours.
The purpose of this question is to find out how many working hours people contribute in the development of Haiku.
hours per week.

Question 13: Why are you interested in Haiku?

This is a very important question in this survey. Please write a few sentences about your interests and expectations regarding Haiku.

Question 14: From your point of view, do you agree or disagree regarding these statements?

Priority strongly disagree disagree neutral agree strongly agree
I am disappointed by Linux because it is too difficult to use.
I am disappointed by Windows because it is too difficult to use.
I am disappointed by Windows because it is too expensive.
I dislike Windows because I do not like Microsoft.
One of the most important reasons why I am interested in Haiku is the user-friendliness (easy to use, user friendly).
One of the most important reasons why I am interested in Haiku is the fast booting of Haiku.
One of the most important reasons why I am interested in Haiku is the multimedia performance of Haiku.
One of the most important reasons why I am interested in Haiku are the low hardware requirements.
I prefer an operating system that is user friendly, even if this means that I can not configure everything in the operating system.
I prefer an operating system that gives me the freedom to configure all possible settings, even if this means that the operating system is not easy to use.
I prefer an operating system with a powerful graphic user interface (GUI) that supports many modern features such as 3D desktop, although this means that the hardware requirements are high.
I prefer an operating system with a simple graphic user interface (GUI) that supports only essential features, but it is easy to use and very fast.
It is important that an operating system supports file sizes of more than 4 GB per file.

Question 15: From your point of view, please prioritise these tasks for the next versions of Haiku.

Please note that you can set each level of priority only to one task. The idea is to create a ranking by using each level of priority exactly once.
It is very important that you set a level of priority to every task. Otherwise the ranking will not be complete.
Priority highest
(rank 1)		 very high
(rank 2)		 high
(rank 3)		 medium
(rank 4)		 low
(rank 5)		 very low
(rank 6)		 lowest
(rank 7)
A powerful game development framework for Haiku
A powerful graphic editing software
A powerful music composition and sound editing software
A powerful office software, such as OpenOffice or some other
A powerful video editing software
A powerful web application server software
A powerful web server software

Question 16: How old are you? (years)

years.

Question 17: What is your gender?

Female
Male

Question 18: Where do you live?

Question 19: What is your current occupation?

Question 20: What is your current field of work or study?

If you have more than one field, then please choose the field that is most important for you.

Question 21: What is your highest degree (education)?

If your degree is missing in the list, then please choose a degree that is similar to yours degree.

Question 22: What is your marital status?

Question 23: How many children do you have?

Question 24: If you like, you can enter your e-mail address in the free text field. This is only OPTIONAL and by doing this, you accept possible further questions about your opinion regarding Haiku or BeOS via e-mail. If you do not like any further questions, please leave this text field blank.

E-mail address (optional):

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