Haiku R1/beta2 has been released

mood · Jun 29, 2020

Haiku R1/beta2 has been released (June 9, 2020)

After almost 2 years since R1/beta1, Haiku R1/beta2 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact", for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just download the release (or upgrade to it from an existing install!)
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mood · Jun 29, 2020

A decidedly non-Linux distro walkthrough: Haiku R1/beta2
June 29, 2020
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/a-decidedly-non-linux-distro-walkthrough-haiku-r1-beta2/

Earlier this month, the Haiku project released the second beta of its namesake operating system, Haiku.

Haiku is the reimagining of a particularly ambitious, forward-looking operating system from 1995—Be, Inc.'s BeOS. BeOS was developed to take advantage of Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SMP) hardware using techniques we take for granted today—kernel-scheduled pre-emptive multitasking, ubiquitous multithreading, and BFS—a 64-bit journaling filesystem of its very own.
First impressions, and the WebPositive browser [...]
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Unfortunately, it's not the 1990s anymore, and the world seems to have passed Haiku by.
Despite Haiku being largely POSIX-compliant, porting major applications requires a significant developer investment that frequently isn't available. Haiku is burdened with a design principle demanding decades of backward compatibility, and has a very small developer team compared to most distributions.

If you're a kernel developer, a major distribution contributor, or just a really enthusiastic devotee of distro hopping, Haiku is worth taking for a spin. Much like TempleOS, it's not very directly useful—but it's a glimpse into a very different way of thinking, and in Haiku's case, a world that might have been.
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