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HaikOS version R1/beta2 has been released! The highlights include improved NVMe, XHCI, and HiDPI support, deskbar improvements, new input preferences, more ported software, better kernel stabilization and performance, and installation improvements. HaikuOS is a free and open source software operating system inspired by the Be Operating System which introduced progressive concepts and technologies that represent the ideal means to simple and efficient personal computing.
From the release notes:
The second beta for Haiku R1 marks twenty months of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability. Since Beta 1, there have been 101 contributors with over 2800 code commits in total. More than 900 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.
Please keep in mind that this is beta-quality software, which means it is feature complete but still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are mostly confident in its stability, we cannot provide assurances against data loss.
To download Haiku or learn how to upgrade from R1/beta1, see “Get Haiku!". For press inquiries, see “Press contact".
System Requirements:
This release is available on the x86 32-bit platform, as well as the x86_64 platform. Note that BeOS R5 compatibility is only provided on the 32-bit images.
MINIMUM (32-bit)
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 12 2020, @08:10PM (2 children)
The Recommended Requirements sounds like it would run on a sub $200 chromebook, if you removed the write protect screw, reflashed the BIOS, etc.
Not that I personally care to try it. It would be a big enough challenge to get such a locked down machine to boot an unsigned Linux. Let alone a completely different OS.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Friday June 12 2020, @11:08PM (1 child)
I have beta 2 running in a virtual machine, and it does what it says on the tin, but it's a long way from being the OS I would use every day.
The (single) user logs in automatically, and I don't think there's a way of forcing a password to log on.
The interface is OK, but kind of limited. The applications list for instance is just a long list of what is installed, with no real explanation of what each programme does. That said, at least I can install LibreOffice now, which kind of seems like a minimum.
In the 1990's BeOS was fantastic, and seemed like a step up over Windows 98, but things have moved on since then and I'm unsure what the point of Haiku really is.
Something good might come out of this project though, and interesting is always good.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Monday June 15 2020, @03:35PM
I agree with that.
It seems like a project more about something from history than something useful going forward. But there are plenty of those. Like Apple II and C64 clones, etc. Nothing wrong with having fun.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.