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posted by martyb on Sunday September 30 2018, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @03:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01 2018, @03:40AM (#742228)

    Reboot. Invalid Partition Table. Bugger.

    From tonights faffing around, I *think* there's two gotchas to possibly watch for

    1. Partition Table Type: something about MBR-msdos/GPT-GUID caused me some initial aggro, even though the disk I used had an existing MBR Table and I was reusing one of the primary partitions as the destination for Haiku, I had set something in the partitioner to MBR-msdos on my machine during install, it then seemed to go ok.
    2. Partition ID: Even though during the install I changed the ID, formatted the partition as a BeOS one and then installed the OS to it, it borked on reboot. Make sure the ID/type *is* eb/BeOS, for some reason on my disk it ended up remaining 83/Linux, the original ID. Despite the installer being told to change it, it hadn't, so to make bloody sure I changed the partition ID to eb using fdisk from Linux then reinstalled...sweetness and light...It's now been up and running for just under 5 hours..
    Time now for some booze, then snooze..

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