Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 07:18 UTC, submitted by umccullough
With many recent stability fixes and other improvements by Michael Lotz (mmlr) as well as others - he was able to finally nail down a couple last minor tweaks that allowed him to checkout the Haiku source from the SVN repository, compile a raw Haiku image, and test it in QEMU entirely from his Haiku install. This is the first time ever that Haiku has reportedly 'self-hosted', an unofficial important requirement for an alpha release. Please note that there are a few technicalities to be ironed out before the process can be easily reproduced by all. Update: Please note that Haiku won't be taking over the world just yet.
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RE: Most important milestone
by umccullough on Tue 12th Feb 2008 08:55
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all from a single session
The message linked could be misinterpreted - it was not from a single session (in fact, last I heard it takes several reboots just to download the entire source)
A followup message was posted to help clarify:
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/haiku-commits/2008-February/01124...
Edited 2008-02-12 08:56 UTC
RE[2]: Most important milestone
by kad77 on Tue 12th Feb 2008 15:33
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There is probably no greater stress test than to retrieve the entire source code repository, compile and build it from scratch, and then run it from within an emulator, all from a single session. This test tests a lot of components of the OS, and to have it actually work proves that the OS is actually stable enough to be usable.
So Haiku is officially usable. This is the most important milestone for a new OS.
Congratulations are in order. I'm off to pop open a bottle of the bubbly stuff.