Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 07:18 UTC, submitted by umccullough
BeOS & Derivatives 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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Good news
by deathshadow on Tue 12th Feb 2008 09:16 UTC
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The ability to compile the OS inside itself and build a usable image will GREATLY speed development. Right now you have to use BeOS 5.0.3 or YellowTab to do serious Haiku development - if it can compile itself competantly, it's only a hop and a skip to being able to do ALL Haiku development inside Haiku itself.