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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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.
Member since:2006-03-22
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.
I thought exactly the same the moment i read the news and saw first screenshots.
Not only it's IMHO too early, but also putting GNU in the name and Penguin as logo/wallpaper is... well... not what i'd like to see.
BTW "Pingwinek" means "Small penguin" in Polish language, so it can have double meaning (one which is kinda offensive).
Member since:2005-10-02
OTOH, he cannot call it Haiku if I remember correctly. Yet again, hit's not the best chosen name - especially not considering some of the (granted, very few) anti-GPL zealots one can find in the Haiku forums 
- I must admit my toes curled a bit in horror from seeing the name 
However - looking at the website it's not difficult to understand why the name is GNU/Haiku.
Member since:2006-01-16
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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.