Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Mar 2007 17:38 UTC, submitted by sogabe
BeOS & Derivatives Haiku has its first distribution, but it's not coming from the Haiku development team. Pingwinek has just released GNU/Haiku 0.1.0, what is claimed to be (probably?) the first distribution of the Haiku operating system, coming from Poland. According to the Pingwinek home page, GNU/Haiku consists of the base Haiku system plus 40 packages ported from the Pingwinek GNU/Linux distribution, and it includes the GCC 2.95.3 compiler, several simple games, SDL, Midnight Commander, and ncurses. GNU/Haiku can be run from a HDD, in QEMU and VMWare or as a Live CD. Screenshots are available, and the images can be download from this page.
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But... Haiku isn't ready for this.
by Mage66 on Mon 12th Mar 2007 18:20 UTC
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Haiku hasn't left Alpha stage yet. It's still in development. I don't think it's developers think it's ready to be a 1.0 release.

And I didn't know that Richard Stallman had anything to do with Haiku. How can they call it GNU/Haiku?

They are putting out new builds every day. This thing is already using obsolete code.