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After 8 Years of Work, Be-Alike Haiku Releases Official Alpha
NiteMair writes "The Haiku project has finally released an official R1 alpha, after 8 years of development. This marks a significant milestone for the project, and it also debuts the first official/publicly available LiveCD ISO image that can be easily booted and used to install Haiku on x86 hardware. Haiku is a desktop operating system inspired by BeOS after Be, Inc. closed its doors in 2001. The project has remained true to the BeOS philosophy while integrating modern hardware support and features along the way." Eugenia adds this link to an article describing the history of the OS, along with a review of the alpha version."
I wonder how strict
Their code formatting rules are.
Sounds like a tough job.
After eight long years
The alpha release is done
It took long enough
Haiku is 17 times better than Syllable.
Not after 10.6 ;) Macs finally feel like BeOs.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
i post this anon
because so many exist
but what is one more?
So when can we expect Debian GNU/Haiku?
"but no WiFi support means I can't connect to the Internet"
Err, have you never heard of an ethernet cable?
It's so much harder to plug an ethernet cable into your neighbour's router without them noticing.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Honking geese fly south
Cacophonously, just like
Slashdot pedants' posts.
Yes...let's create a new and entirely gratuitous standard because trolls
and developers alike can't be bothered to be aware of the pre-existing
standards and conventions that have existed on Unix in general (never
mind just Linux) for 20 YEARS already.
Losers.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> When I tried out BeOS R4, I was really impressed but couldn't really use it day to day. Ever since then I've been looking for the next best thing but never found it.
You should have looked at NeXT at this time. It was waaay better than BeOS.
GNU/BeOS?
Pshh, what a newbie OS that would be!
three words:
kernel mode setting
Three more words:
bicycle cheese starfish
Bow-ties are cool.
BeFS.
There's something kind of indefinable 'fun' about the OS as well..
I've sent this in to Linux developers as a feature request.
Dear developers,
Please make Linux more fun. You know... like... fun. I think it could use 15-20% more je ne sais quoi. Then it would really rock.
Thanks!
Greenguy
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
I'm of the "if it looks like a duck" school of thought
Sounds more like your school of thought goes like "if it's not an octopus and not a fish and it has two legs, it must be a duck".
You just got troll'd!
Uhh, it's the middle of September, dude. You might want to get a calendar.
You might ask yourself,
On what date does summer end?
Do you see my point?
Bow-ties are cool.
Haiku is 17 times better than Syllable.
What you call "better", I call "bloat"! I like my OSes how I like my poetry, streamlined and with everything extraneous removed. A wise man once said that the process of creating is done when you have removed everything you can. Clearly, then, Syllable is the best thing ever.
Just as an example of its power, watch as I use Syllable to compress not only every Haiku, but every poem of every type ever, down into 3 poems!
Sex.
Death.
Life.
And for the enterprising Syllabist, you can probably guess that even this can be reduced down to a single poem, the one and only poem that you'll ever need:
Fuck.
The enemies of Democracy are
Ya damned pirate.. you know only pirates and terrorists use p2p
---- Booth was a patriot ----