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:2007-03-12
Not really. This guy/team aims to provide a usable free operating system. He just decided to use parts from the Linux, Haiku and GNU projects to achieve his vision.
Then he should call it something else, not bleed off either the GNU or Haiku names. Not only is it rude it's theft and confuses the minds of potential customers which, in Haiku's case, I hope isn't just developers scratching an itch but real customers who just want to get stuff done.
Edited 2007-03-13 01:06
Member since:2005-10-02
It is not theft. It could be considered rude (with the goals of Haiku in mind), but even that could be argued not to be true.
Confusing OTHO - I'll grant you that. But puhlease forget about "theft" - there is absolutely no theft here. Actually the Haiku-based system is not called GNU/Haiku. It is called Pingwinek GNU/Haiku and the Linux-based version is called Pingwinek GNU/Linux.
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2006-11-26
Not really. This guy/team aims to provide a usable free operating system. He just decided to use parts from the Linux, Haiku and GNU projects to achieve his vision.
Edited 2007-03-13 00:09