Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Apr 2008 15:56 UTC
The Haiku project has reached a very important milestone. Bruno G. Albuquerque (bga) wrote the following note attached to a commit a few moments ago: "vnode_path_to_vnode() now returns B_NOT_A_DIRECTORY instead of B_NOT_ALLOWED as expected by POSIX programs. This allowed me to compile Haiku under itself without any hacks at all, so I guess this means that now we are officially self-hosting!" The official announcement can be found in the mailing list. In addition, there's a new Haiku alpha 1 status update.
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ahh, this would be the cruelest April's fool joke if it were so. however it seems to be legit and thus so sweet!
like others I'm oh-so eager to try Haiku on real hardware as opposed to a vm. however, let's not get carried away and trumpet Haiku as a useable day-to-day operating system or some such when the public alpha is released as it will likely be quite unstable and slower than Beos R5.
creating an expectation that the alpha can't possible live up to could end up generating alot of negative buzz (particularly since people just don't seem to understand what alpha means in software terms) and give cheap ammo to those who for some reason has a compelling need to enter threads concerning alternate os's and spit.
long live Haiku!