With the imminent release of the Haiku Alpha, Haiku-Files is now releasing ISO images for testing. Note that these are not the actual alpha release, but only daily builds of the branch which will eventually become the alpha! "With the upcoming release of Haiku R1Alpha1, we are providing candidate imagefiles. They are X86 GCC2 Hybrid images and provided as Raw HD, VMware, and ISO images. As per the R1Alpha1 specifications, they are built from the releases/r1alpha1 branch code and utilize the alpha-* build profile."
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I may just go out and buy a second hard drive so I can try this out. I tried resizing my NTFS partition on two different computers with GParted Live, but both attempts failed; so I'm going to have to get a new hard drive since I don't want to destroy my Windows partitions. I suppose I could settle for virtualization, but I have had speed issues with that before.
Edited 2009-09-01 20:47 UTC
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Remember, this is still technically "pre-alpha"...
Bug fixes are being merged into the alpha branch pretty much continously now, and known performance issues with the Live/Install CD are being addressed as well.
Various cleanups are still being made to public headers, etc.
Additionally, the various 3rd party packages are being updated bit by bit and need to be regression tested to make sure they still work...
And finally, we don't have these candidate builds mirrored anywhere, so please don't eat our hosting server yet 
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I must say I'm VERY impressed with the progress Haiku made. Yesterday I tested it and it worked EXCELLENT both on my desktop and new netbook computer. Of course WiFi was not detected, but the FreeBSD-derrived framework is probobly not finished yet. Anyway - everything worked out of the box - multimedia [BeOS was a multimedia OS!], graphics, sound [the desktop sound was bit buggy - AC97 sound, although the netbook's Intel HD Audio worked as a charm], and even touchpad with the multitouch and scroll spaces! not mentioning improved network security, closed ports; sshd turned off by default. This is a milestone. I'm looking forward for the other improvements.
Thanks HAIKU TEAM!
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