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Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1

posted by martyb on Sunday September 30 2018, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-nightly-images-are-good-too dept.

Subsentient writes:

After nearly 6 years since R1/alpha4, Haiku R1/beta1 has been released.

[...] This release sees the addition of official x86_64 images, alongside the existing x86 32-bit ones.

[...] By far the largest change in this release is the addition of a complete package management system.

I'm very happy to see the progress alternative open source operating systems have made in recent years.

[Haiku -- an OS,
development continues,
open source is good.
Try your own --Ed.]

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday September 30 2018, @10:57PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday September 30 2018, @10:57PM (#742172) Journal

    is this the Year of the Alternative and Ancient OSes?

    I had never heard of TempleOS until the recent news of its creator's passing.
    Then this Haiku, an open source BeOS clone, reaches beta status.
    There's also news a few days ago that M$ has released source for MS-DOS 1 and 2. (FreeDOS released version 1.2 in Dec 2016.)
    And this all happens as Linus takes an absence from Linux.

    So, Minix 3? Anything new? Still stuck on version 3.3.0, I see. Didn't do a Google Summer of Code this year so you could wow us in September with microkernel goodness running Firefox for Minix 3.

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