Haiku OS Is Stepping Closer To Its Beta

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Haiku OS Is Stepping Closer To Its Beta

The open-source Haiku operating system still maintaining compatibility with BeOS is nearing its first beta milestone...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Haiku-OS-Beta-Closer

[fedora-user]

at 2040:

Haiku OS reached to 1.0 version.

What is positive about Haiku OS?

It is only a *hobby operating system* !

[unixfan2001]

at 2040:

Haiku OS reached to 1.0 version.

What is positive about Haiku OS?

It is only a *hobby operating system* !

"What's so special about GNU/Linux?

It's only a hobby OS..."

-- some suit a few years ago

[AdamOne]

Congratumalations, Haiku, you're that much closer to emulating BeOS, from 1991!

[Kemosabe]

Congratumalations, Haiku, you're that much closer to emulating BeOS, from 1991!

Are they really still fully compatible? I believe I've read that ancient software doesn't work anymore since they had to upgrade the ancient gcc2 or something ...

[kallisti5]

Are they really still fully compatible? I believe I've read that ancient software doesn't work anymore since they had to upgrade the ancient gcc2 or something ...

The current plans are to release two images.

* x86 will be based on gcc2 to keep BeOS application compatibility. (old Mesa 7.x swrast)
* x86_64 will be based on a modern (gcc 5.4 currently) and not be BeOS binary compatible. (latest Mesa 17.x llvmpipe + maybe HW rendering per this year's GSOC work)

We finally found a way to keep everyone happy :-) 32-bit BeOS images, and 64-bit images represent the future.

[ElectricPrism]

Why keep beos compatability? wouldnt it have been easier to purchase the original source code vs this huge undertaking.

[Kemosabe]

The current plans are to release two images.

* x86 will be based on gcc2 to keep BeOS application compatibility. (old Mesa 7.x swrast)
* x86_64 will be based on a modern (gcc 5.4 currently) and not be BeOS binary compatible. (latest Mesa 17.x llvmpipe + maybe HW rendering per this year's GSOC work)

We finally found a way to keep everyone happy :-) 32-bit BeOS images, and 64-bit images represent the future.

HW rendering is something crucial for haiku being taken seriously outside of the core fangroup. This should be a top priority (under the assumption it can run on reasonably modern hardware).

[starshipeleven]

"What's so special about GNU/Linux?

It's only a hobby OS..."

-- some suit a few years ago

History isn't always repeating itself, windows of opportunity eventually close and never reopen again.

That niche has already been taken by Linux, unless Linux dies in a massive flaming and smoking trainwreck there is no more space for another "hobby OS" to become what is Linux now.

[starshipeleven]

at 2040:

Haiku OS reached to 1.0 version.

What is positive about Haiku OS?

It is only a *hobby operating system* !

Ah, shut up you hater. It's going faster than ReactOS at least.