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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.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday June 12 2020, @09:02PM (2 children)
They pretty much set out to make a better Amiga OS, pretty much all their "progressive" concepts came from the Amiga. Jean-Louis Gassee even said so himself. That said the Amiga had probably a near infinite larger user and software base even at the time of the BeBOX/OS compared to what Be ever managed. Which I guess is somewhat sad, BeOS looked real nice, this looks kinda nice to. But it will never take off. I'm not even sure a new OS will ever actually be a thing -- we are just stuck with the stuff we got.
That said I do wish it, BeOS, had become the next MacOS -- at least then I wouldn't have minded using a Mac.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @10:38PM (1 child)
If they port something like mixxx to beos and it supports usb audio I will sure give it a try.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday June 12 2020, @10:57PM
I'm not saying I'm not going to give it a go, I tried some of the previous releases. There is just nothing there that keeps me around.