Haiku 1.0 Alpha 1 releases (BeOS clone)

[KAMiKAZOW]

Hi.
In case you didn't notice, the Haiku project just announced their first Alpha:
Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1 | Haiku Project

Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1 | H

[microchip8]

That's cool. Anyone tried it yet? I haven't...

Also I noticed that this release comes approx 8 years after the project was started. Compared to Linux development (even earlier one), that's pretty slow

[hendersj]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:56:02 +0000, microchip8 wrote:

> That's cool. Anyone tried it yet? I haven't...

It showed up on one of my Linux Format DVDs a couple months ago; I
remember looking at it as BeOS before.

It's fast, but one thing I noticed with the version included on my LXF
disc was that it was missing something rather important - don't recall
now if it was a browser or something like that.

As such, I couldn't do very much with it.

Jim



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[GofBorg]

>
> It's fast, but one thing I noticed with the version included on my LXF
> disc was that it was missing something rather important - don't recall
> now if it was a browser or something like that.
>
> As such, I couldn't do very much with it.

The latest build should have everything you need, including a ...rather
dated but works...browser. FWIW, there is a project to create a Haiku
native browser based on WebKit.

Yes development is slow because the team and the community is very small in
comparison to Linux.

[hendersj]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:37:55 +0000, GofBorg wrote:


>> It's fast, but one thing I noticed with the version included on my LXF
>> disc was that it was missing something rather important - don't recall
>> now if it was a browser or something like that.
>>
>> As such, I couldn't do very much with it.
>
> The latest build should have everything you need, including a ...rather
> dated but works...browser. FWIW, there is a project to create a Haiku
> native browser based on WebKit.
>
> Yes development is slow because the team and the community is very small
> in comparison to Linux.

Cool, thanks for that info - I'll have to check it out. I really liked
the boot speed in BeOS, though it isn't that significant when the system
just runs. :-)

Jim



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[GofBorg]

> Cool, thanks for that info - I'll have to check it out. I really liked
> the boot speed in BeOS, though it isn't that significant when the system
> just runs. :-)

I was always impressed by its media processing speed.
Try opening like 20 windows running GL Teapot.

[hendersj]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:07:22 +0000, GofBorg wrote:

>> Cool, thanks for that info - I'll have to check it out. I really liked
>> the boot speed in BeOS, though it isn't that significant when the
>> system just runs. :-)
>
> I was always impressed by its media processing speed. Try opening like
> 20 windows running GL Teapot.

Yeah, that was an impressive test to run as well. :-)

Jim



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