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on Sunday September 30 2018, @07:27AM
from the the-nightly-images-are-good-too dept.
from the the-nightly-images-are-good-too dept.
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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sillema sillema nika su
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @12:25AM
As I had a spare disk kicking around,
Toshiba Sattelite C660-195
Dual booting with Devuan
Network and Wireless work out of the box,
sound works out of the box
Screen runs at 1366x768 32bpp
GL Teapot runs at 58 fps
Things I didn't expect to work: the fn keys for volume, brightness etc (even under Linux, where they're sort-of supported, they're a bit hit and miss anyway)
Video playback is ok, had several different files open and running simultaneously, the only visible problems were nothing to do with Haiku OS, but everything to do with the crappy encoding of some of them (same issues playing them on the Linux boxes), only thing of note is that the audio/video sync is more than a wee bit more off for a number of files tested.
As to laptop support, I don't see any menu entries for suspend to disk, it's been a while since I've played with Haiku, long, long time since I touched BeOS, I'll be RTFM'ing on and off over the next couple of days..unfortunately I'll have to put 'the other disk' back into the laptop, as I'm currently in the land of the redundant and unemployed I need the thing to boot Win7 for Corel and Artcam to get my design portfolio up to date, so playing time will be restricted to odd hours.
some bad photos of it up and running..
https://yadi.sk/i/rWdffNGjxeSjVQ [yadi.sk] (Ignore the laptop running Kali....it wasn't up to anything, honest!)
https://yadi.sk/i/xoLIMPhx-0hmmg [yadi.sk] (browser renders soylentnews, slashdot, the BBC fine, but El Reg has jumped the shark with their latest redesign...displays HeeHaw for a hellishly long time)
https://yadi.sk/i/sib87dzUmm1q_Q [yadi.sk] (playing music off the Clip Jam hanging off the USB)
Btw, posting this via the beastie..