Today the latest SVN checkout of Haiku sources gave us very good news: app_server can now run Tracker (screenshot 1 2 3), although it crashes so often that it is actually unusable. You can check this yourself by downloading a Haiku image from Philipp Schmid's blog and running it in Virtual PC (or VMWare). This news is a sign that Haiku is near alpha release.
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Trust in me...
Haiku changed from a text-based OS to a partially functioning graphical OS in about 2 months..
In the summer I expect to see Haiku + Tracker + Deskbar and older apps fully functioning under the OS.
Once the basis are made, the rest comes smooth as silk. This release is a confirm.
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I forgot to tell you:
copy and paste the address in your browser. Altervista does have image stealing protection... if you click it doesnt work.
http://montefiore.altervista.org/haiku_tracker.png
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...that I will buy a brand new PC just for Haiku Beta 1! Seriously, these guys have worked their butts off with few resources and have pulled a rabbit out of their respective hats.
Maybe BeOS will replace my macs in the future and regain its prominent position on MY desktop.
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You actually can!
I will make a tutorial soon.
You just have to set up a BFS partition on your hard drive, then boot BeOS R5, mount the image from philipp schmid blog, copy the contents in the BFS partition...
Configure GRUP et-voilą, you have haiku running as alternative OS in your multiboot configuration 
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Thanks and here is torrent.
http://66.93.46.148:6969/torrents/haiku.torrent?AD369846E2A9902B082...
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That is some awesome news. I really have some high hopes for the project now. A group hat puts this much time and effort really shows how dedicated they are to it. They got my support! When they release something more usable in time I will most likely be using that as a main OS since I have always liked the feel and performance of BeOS.
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Just curious as to when there is a full haiku release which will boot on the latest kit and has a lot of the limitations of R5 fixed whether it will be a match for replacing windowslinux on the desktop. From a useabilityconsistency point of view Opentrackerdeskbar GUI is still ahead of GNOMEKDEX11 in my book although it does look a wee bit dated.
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It's always good to hear progres son the Haiku front. I'm downloading the VPC images so that I can give this a shot for myself. Although I've moved on to using Mac OS X as my primary workstation I am excited about installing Haiku when it gets to an installable state. I just hope they create a PPC version not long after releasing R1. BeOS on a PowerBook would be great, and of course being able to run Haiku on my BeBox might get me to use it a little more!
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Yes, it looks pretty professional. But the 'perfectionist' can point out several things which could be improved upon...
The fonts seem to be a bit too big, compared to the original used as the default font for the menu in BeOS.
Also, the close button is not as nice as the original BeOS one, it is shaded differently and looks a bit worse in my opinion.
I think they should try and emulate BeOS as closely as possible and limit improvements to bug fixes in R1.
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Thats exactly what they are trying to do. As far as everything looking exactly the same, It will come. I sure that they are happy just to have something that looks like it at this point.
A lot of good info about where they are headed with Haiku over at there website www.haiku-os.org :
the FAQs:
http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=faq_normal
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Well, if it's running, and it crashes a lot. Then it just means they are real close to good old BeOS. 
Congrats guys. Keep up the good work.
The progress they have made is really impressive.
I don't think they will ever get to where they have much of a market. But it's nice to see them progress, between them and yellowtab they will be able to offer the world a nice clean, coherent, simple OS to the world for people to use other then Mac and Win. And give anyone who use to use beos a place to pic up and run from.
I doubt I will go back to beos anytime soon (I like using a fully supported common OS) but will be nice to see there is something else that I would be fine with going to and might in time have some good stuff to offer.
I loved using BeOS, but the reality kicked in that you can only go so far if your not running Windows or Mac OS and running something like BeOS just makes your life a pain.
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Haiku team is really advancing fast. As someone pointed out, 2-3 months ago it was running on CLI. Those people are doing their best, and I'll do anything I can to support them: report bugs, fixes, and even some basic apps. We should join them. Hell, who else can do this?
Congrats.
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That's a known bug, and app_server team is well aware of it. But it's not their top priority to fix. Yet.
Code refactorization and robustness comes first currently.
BTW, the mouse cursor is a software one ATM (notice that drop shadow, right?), not an hardware one.
PS: I'm not an app_server team member: just reporting some talks I'd read about slow issue.
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> BTW, the mouse cursor is a software one ATM (notice
> that drop shadow, right?), not an hardware one.
You can have drop shadows with hardware cursors too, depending on the gfx board. Of course in VESA mode it can't be anything else than a sw cursor :-)
> PS: I'm not an app_server team member: just
> reporting some talks I'd read about slow issue.
Nonetheless, it would have been interesting to know the reason for that.
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These Haiku images do boot under VMWare.
(Well at least the VMWare image does. - 2005_07_06_vmware.zip)
Previously to get it to boot in vmware you had to hold down the space bar to get to the boot menu, Then choose safemode | vesa 32 bit colour.
However one of the later posts on Philipp's site said that it would do this automatically now.
Will have to try it out.
Well it is exciting to see how fast things seem to be picking up. from CLI to even basic GUI in 2-3 months is amazing.
Thanks for all of the hard work guys.
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Try this:
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=haikutracker0uo.png
Credits to "Anonymous (IP: 62.10.56.---)", I just copied it to a better host that doesn't have anti-leeching enabled.
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Thanks. Do you like the colors used in the credits section? At start, it was plain black on white, I've tried to introduce some haiku-theme colors then.
I guess we'll try to improve it before R1, anyway.
Add some transparency effect and... easter-egg(s) :-)
Closed source ester-eggs, anyone!?!
:-p
- Philippe.
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Nice work guys. Got it working on my Duron 800 Minitower which was a Radeon card that works with Thomas' driver, I created a new BFS partition and mounted the Raw Haiku.image file then copied every thing from there into the new BFS volume and then ran BOOTMAN and added Haiku to my boot menu. Boots right up! Tried the same thing on my laptop which has a Radeon Mobility 9600 and it locks up on the second Haiku window, with the same video flickering I get in BeOS. I tried putting it into safemode and change the video setting and it gets past that point but drop me into console mode only. Anyone heard from Thomas lately? Or anyone know enough about the Radeon Mobility that could get the driver working right in BeOS/Haiku?
Also to note, on my Duron 800 the AboutHaiku window shows it's full 1024MB, which is more than plain R5 can do without pathes.
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1. BeOS R5 applications under Haiku - http://www.hanasoft.ru/images/ss/Haiku_07.07.2005_R5Application.png
2.Native applications - http://www.hanasoft.ru/images/ss/Haiku_07.07.2005_HaikuApplication....
3.Tracker in work - http://www.hanasoft.ru/images/ss/Haiku_07.07.2005_Tracker.png
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Looks nice! Ok, except that the new font renderer obviously reports the wrong character string width - if you look at Expander Preferences, for instance, you'll notice that none of the text fits in the text boxes, same for some buttons. Seems like the renderer draws fonts too wide for the specified point size?
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For a lot of screenshots of HAIKU have a look at:
http://www.bug-nordic.org/haiku.php?PHPSESSID=953176db74b44f30f1f1c...
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