Star Haiku 'Self Hosts' for the First Time
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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umccullough
Member since:
2006-01-26

This was a problem witjh RISC OS... and the apps never got 'there' before it died. The same will happen to Haiku. Haiku will never have a user base bigger than AmigaOS does now, the apps will never get 'there', neither will H.


As long as it remains open source, and there are fanatic people who are supporting it - I don't see how your logic applies.

Nobody can "kill" Haiku except its own users/developers/supporters...

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Coxy Member since:
2006-07-01

'Nobody can "kill" Haiku except its own users/developers/supporters...'

...or lack there of.

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umccullough Member since:
2006-01-26

'Nobody can "kill" Haiku except its own users/developers/supporters...'

...or lack there of.


Well yes, exactly - what did you think I meant?

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phoudoin Member since:
2006-06-09

'Nobody can "kill" Haiku except its own users/developers/supporters...'

...or lack there of.

7 years after Be Inc. closed, 7 years since OpenBeOS then Haiku is in development, users/developers/supporters are still there when - by any measure - they had all reasons to lost faith and interest and had many motives to moved on without return.

But they didn't.
Maybe they have a reason for that...

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wing Member since:
2005-07-07

well we'll see if thats the case. I have used osx, beos, windows, and linux, and when haiku becomes stable I will switch in a heartbeat (though I sadly will keep a partition available for audio production until it catches up in that regard).

BeOS wasn't just "advanced for its time", there is still nothing else like it and when haiku is released, even as r1, in my honest opinion, it will still be the most elegant desktop experience there is.

And good applications, owing to its awesome api (they also are very forward-looking by supporting java, hopefully they can integrate it well with the BeAPI), are also destined to come once the platform becomes readily available.

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