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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @10:49PM (1 child)
All's I remember of it is that it made message passing as the standard IPC mechanism to make multiprocessing "it just works."
What other merit does it have?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:53AM
"it made message passing as the standard IPC mechanism"
Thoth and the Stanford V Kernel called.
They want their programming paradigm back.