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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."
Loser say what?!
Mr Gassee rises to DEFEAT the ugly empire Apple has become. ...or not. ...more likely to suffer in silence.
But seriously, I had BeOS running on a machine back when ... great, great, very unfinished stuff. Maybe it is complete now and you can actually do something?
Question is: Does anyone care anymore?
It's an alternative to Windows and OSX, except unlike Linux it hasn't yet attracted a large group of faggots, assholes, fanboys, and zealots. Be patient.
Haiku is not a Linux distro nor is it based on Linux.
To microsofters, everything except M$ products is called "linux". That includes OS X, Oracle and, now, Haiku.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.