Star First Haiku Distribution Released
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
Mage66
Member since:
2005-07-11

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.

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thjayo Member since:
2005-11-11

They put some GNU software on it, from what I understand.
Hence the name ;)

Anyway, the fact that Haiku is still alpha is the reason I haven't moved forward with my own distribution, and I believe most of the future distro-makers think that way.

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umccullough Member since:
2006-01-26

Well, duh - Haiku comes with GNU software (hello: bash!)

But anyway, that doesn't mean it has to be named GNU/Haiku - that's really quite annoying as there's no requirement that it do so. (last I checked, the GPL didn't require that the use of GNU software be specified in the product name).

I'm a little disappointed in this "first distro" - I think it's slightly in bad taste, but I'll reserve my judgment as this is really just my opinion.

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computrius Member since:
2006-03-26

Heh.. Linux isnt ready for a 1.0 release either, that hasn't stopped them ;)

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deb2006 Member since:
2006-06-26

Yeah, sure - that's the reason why Linux is being used in mission critical environments, as embedded system, as real time system etc. p.p. Wake up, kiddie ;)

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