The Haiku project has reached a very important milestone. Bruno G. Albuquerque (bga) wrote the following note attached to a commit a few moments ago: "vnode_path_to_vnode() now returns B_NOT_A_DIRECTORY instead of B_NOT_ALLOWED as expected by POSIX programs. This allowed me to compile Haiku under itself without any hacks at all, so I guess this means that now we are officially self-hosting!" The official announcement can be found in the mailing list. In addition, there's a new Haiku alpha 1 status update.
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Member since:2006-01-24
ahh, this would be the cruelest April's fool joke if it were so. however it seems to be legit and thus so sweet!
like others I'm oh-so eager to try Haiku on real hardware as opposed to a vm. however, let's not get carried away and trumpet Haiku as a useable day-to-day operating system or some such when the public alpha is released as it will likely be quite unstable and slower than Beos R5.
creating an expectation that the alpha can't possible live up to could end up generating alot of negative buzz (particularly since people just don't seem to understand what alpha means in software terms) and give cheap ammo to those who for some reason has a compelling need to enter threads concerning alternate os's and spit.
long live Haiku!
Member since:2008-04-01
I agree we shouldn't get overexcited, but I have to disagree when you imply Haiku can't be used as a day-to-day OS.
On the contrary, I'm posting this from within Haiku on real hardware! I also have R5 on this same system, and I can honestly tell you that Haiku is much nicer to work with. My network card "just works" without configuration (not only do I have to configure it in BeOS, but network connectivity is so flaky as to be unusable). In Haiku, the native resolution on my monitor is supported, whereas in BeOS I have to endure stretch mode.
Sure, I don't have many of the applications I have in Linux or Windows, but how is that different than BeOS?
Stability is quite good IMO. Rarely does the kernel itself crash. Speed is another matter, as the system hasn't been optimized.
So I guess what I'm saying is: Should we give the impression to new users that they can replace their installation of Windows, Linux, or Mac with Haiku and be okay? Of course not. But the OS *is* useable day-to-day, and it is quite stable given that it's pre-alpha quality. There's still plenty of work to be done, to be sure, but I believe Haiku's quality has already surpassed that of R5. (YMMV, of course, and I acknowledge that.)
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2006-01-26
So, at first glance, this would maybe seem to be an April fools joke... but considering how close Haiku has been to self-hosting lately, I suspect it could probably be true even
Guess I'll find out tonight when I get home and see it working for myself