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."

Comments

Oh my

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder how strict
Their code formatting rules are.
Sounds like a tough job.

Re:Oh my

[MrNaz]

You got the first post
And started a Haiku fad
I hope you're happy

Re:Oh my

[93 Escort Wagon]

Good god, no!

More idiots who think they are being smart by creating three lines of text in a 5-7-5.

Come on geeks, if you are going to be geeks at least get it right. There is more to making a haiku than 5-7-5 and trying to sound smart. Go and google/wikipedia it.

Hint. There are no haikus on this thread so far.

Anal retentive
I'll guess you've heard that before
Down in your basement

Re:Oh my

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on geeks, if you are going to be geeks at least get it right. There is more to making a haiku than 5-7-5 and trying to sound smart. Go and google/wikipedia it.

From wikipedia: "Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji [lit. 'cutting word'] or verbal caesura."

A haiku is more
Than five, seven, and five words.
Fuck you, it's autumn.

Re:Oh my

[fucket]

Short a syllable
A misused apostrophe
Massive haiku fail

Obligatory

[Jeian]

After eight long years
The alpha release is done
It took long enough

Re:What about Syllable?

[Anonymous Coward]

Haiku is 17 times better than Syllable.

redundant haiku is redundant

[Anonymous Coward]

i post this anon
because so many exist
but what is one more?

Re:Why can't you connect to the internet?

[kinnell]

"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.

Take that!

[Brunellus]

Honking geese fly south

Cacophonously, just like

Slashdot pedants' posts.

Re:Not free

[Anonymous Coward]

GNU/BeOS?

Pshh, what a newbie OS that would be!

Three more words

[Tetsujin]

three words:

kernel mode setting

Three more words:
bicycle cheese starfish

Re:Just another flavour of Linux?

[4D6963]

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".

Summer in September? Preposterous!

[Tetsujin]

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?

Re:What about Syllable?

[Chris Burke]

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.