BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4

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BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4

Posted by Unknown on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:50AM from the unix-haters-handbook dept.

New submitter kallisti5 writes "The Haiku project released their 4th alpha release today. A year and four months have passed since the 3rd alpha release. Haiku R1A4 includes several enhancements such as a large number of bug fixes, early IPv6 support, better drivers, improved file system support, better localization, and a wide variety of new features and applications." Multimedia enhancements include support for modern Intel and Radeon HD cards.

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By the time version 1 arrives, in 10 years ... by Taco+Cowboy · 2012-11-12 11:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

... and nobody will remember what "Haiku" or "BeOS" is all about.

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1. Re:By the time version 1 arrives, in 10 years ... by origin2k · 2012-11-12 12:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Be is gone so sad
  Haiku is here so no fear
  Bits and bytes take time
2. Re:By the time version 1 arrives, in 10 years ... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-12 12:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  the slashdot racists
  trolling with small endowment
  go back to 4chan
3. Re:By the time version 1 arrives, in 10 years ... by lucmove · 2012-11-12 12:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  In 10 years, nobody will remember what "Haiku" or "BeOS" is all about.
  ...unlike today, when hordes of people know what "Haiku" and "BeOS" are all about. Right?
4. Re:By the time version 1 arrives, in 10 years ... by UltraZelda64 · 2012-11-12 23:08 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Haiku has been making excellent progress over the last couple of years compared to another clone, ReactOS. Haiku is actually quite usable as it is and pretty stable. In fact, I'd say its stability gives Win9x and even most Windows XP installations I've seen a run for their money. I don't mess with Windows any more since XP, but I do know at least one person who kept getting program crashed and BSODs in Vista and he still gets them occasionally in 7. ReactOS, by comparison, feels like a pre-alpha at best, or an old Win9x release at the worst. As far as reaching R1 goes, I don't think there'll be anywhere near 10 years of waiting... the OS feels pretty good as it is already.
In future news by viperidaenz · 2012-11-12 12:24 · Score: 5, Funny

I just got back from a trip in my DeLorean and in 2017 Haiku Release R1 Beta 1 was announced.
Re:NO ONE GIVES A FUCK!!!! by Scarletdown · 2012-11-12 12:33 · Score: 5, Funny

fuck you geek faggots.
Go ahead and continue. You got the format correct for the first line. Now you need to come up with 2 more lines for your entry to be complete.

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Re:NO ONE GIVES A FUCK!!!! by Scarletdown · 2012-11-12 13:16 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes, that would work. We can make a world class poet out of Mr. Ballmer yet.

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Haiku will be Linux for the desktop by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-12 13:34 · Score: 3, Insightful

You naysayers can feel free to call me crazy, but Haiku has a better chance at winning the desktop than Linux ever did. It is exactly the kind of coherent and elegantly designed platform that is as attractive to users as it is to developers. Haiku has been a slow starter, so it may take a while to happen unless more devs start to look at the prospect of seriously contributing to it. But the truth is, quality takes time. The Linux approach of "code first, ask questions later" does get things done faster. The desktop is just one of those cases where better will always beat faster in the long run.
Re:Hoping for a light GPL-free desktop by jc42 · 2012-11-12 15:26 · Score: 4, Informative

If you're trying to develop a commercial product, best make sure it has no GPL code in it.
I think you mean: If you're trying to develop a commercial product by stealing others' code and claiming it's your own, best make sure it has no GPL code in it.
GPL code has no legal problems that aren't much larger if you base your work on someone else's proprietary code. GPL merely legalizes your "stealing", but says you must then permit others to "steal" your code as well. With proprietary code, anything you do with it is illegal.
Not that this matters much to the users, who mostly don't ever write any code, much less attempt to sell it.
(There's a long tradition in technical circles of taking insults and turning them into technical jargon. And there's the old saying that copying from one person is plagiarism, but copying from many is research. ;-)

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Re:Hoping for a light GPL-free desktop by serviscope_minor · 2012-11-12 23:07 · Score: 3

a) the GPL is considered pretty evil by lawyers.
ITYM: the GPL is considered pretty evil by incompetent lawyers. It's good that way. If your lawyer has an irrational fear of the GPL, the fire the lawyer since it's clear you've wound up with a duff one.
If you're trying to develop a commercial product, best make sure it has no GPL code in it.
Like RHEL, IBM, Android, Linksys, and frankly, thousands of others. That's an excellent model to follow.
Oh you said avoid GPL. Right.
b) some people hate Richard Stallman even more than they hate Steve Ballmer.
Well, if people are going to make strange, irrational decisions based on strange, irrational assumptions about a person they've never met and who has little if anything to do with what they're using, then they get what they deserve.

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