OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19772/Haiku_Progresses_Towards_Alpha_1 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 16:29:58 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Sweet http://www.osnews.com/thread?315208 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315208 Can't wait for an actual release to try. I've been following Haiku for a while now. It's great to watch the progress.

Keep up the good work, guys. Thu, 22 May 2008 06:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arakon) Comments The Code Drive has broken the $5000 barrier! http://www.osnews.com/thread?315222 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315222 The real story is that in less than a week the Haiku Code Drive fund has broken the $5000 barrier! That means at least two students will be sponsored in addition to those sponsored by Google as part of the Summer of Code.

If you haven't stumped up yet, go hit that "Donate" button. Voting to select the projects begins later today. Thu, 22 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Polari) Comments Comment by dammage http://www.osnews.com/thread?315224 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315224 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then you win!

Haiku has very great and loyal heads behind itself. It's great to see every update since I catched up on OpenBeOS ;)

I wonder what ex Be Inc. employees e.g. at Trolltech will say once it is out ;) Thu, 22 May 2008 10:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dammage) Comments Congratulations http://www.osnews.com/thread?315227 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315227 I've been using various Linuxes (Linuces? Linux?) for the past 8 years, but what I actually value is freedom of choice. I'm sure I've got a spare computer around here somewhere. (rummage, rummage) Ah, here it is!

:-)

Ready when you are!

Congratulations on great progress! Thu, 22 May 2008 11:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ricegf) Comments Almost surreal http://www.osnews.com/thread?315236 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315236 For an ex-BeOS user who watched with anticipation (on the greenboards) as different groups struggled to gain mindshare these are truly exciting times. I look forward to usable beta's to fiddle around with! Thu, 22 May 2008 11:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments Comment by Andre http://www.osnews.com/thread?315245 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315245 This is great news. Good to see a mixed gcc2/gcc4 release is possible now. Moving forwards, yet maintaining backwards compatibility. great! Thu, 22 May 2008 13:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andre) Comments nice Haiku screenies http://www.osnews.com/thread?315247 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315247 http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p... Thu, 22 May 2008 14:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments Haiku Progresses Towards Alpha 1 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315251 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315251 Excellent! I can’t wait for when I can replace my old BeOS 5 installation with Haiku, and start using it in a production environment.

We can even help speeding up the process if we donate a little every month at: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/donating_to_haiku Thu, 22 May 2008 15:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jarzac) Comments Comment by primelight@live.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?315255 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315255 Since just about every PC sold out there is dual/quad core, they should fix the horrible SMP problems before even thinking about alpha releases... It's a promising OS, but I've found it to be very unstable. Thu, 22 May 2008 16:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (primelight@live.com) Comments RE: Comment by primelight@live.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?315256 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315256
It's a promising OS, but I've found it to be very unstable.


Haven't your bug reports been getting reviewed? Clearly the KDL outputs and serial logs must have provided enough information for one of the core developers to start tracking down these issues for you.

FWIW, not many people are complaining about SMP stability issues at this point - so I'm guessing your scenario is not common. Thu, 22 May 2008 16:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments RE[2]: Comment by primelight@live.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?315324 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315324 Coverity should be used to find these bugs. Fri, 23 May 2008 02:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ari-free) Comments RE: Comment by primelight@live.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?315379 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315379 Which "horrible SMp problems"? Can you be more specific? I run Haiku on an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme and I did not really see anything like that. Fri, 23 May 2008 13:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bruno) Comments RE: Comment by primelight@live.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?315407 http://www.osnews.com/thread?315407 I regularly run the latest Haiku revision on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with SMP enabled, and I never have any problems. Now 3+ months ago it would be a different story; maybe you're just using an older revision? ;) Fri, 23 May 2008 15:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jfreeman) Comments