Haiku R1 Beta 2 "Open-Source BeOS" Operating System Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Haiku R1 Beta 2 "Open-Source BeOS" Operating System Released

Haiku, the nearly two decade old open-source operating system still preserving compatibility with BeOS, is out with its second beta release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Haiku-R1-Beta-2-Released

[S.Pam]

Wow, that was fast Michael ! Great to see updates on this OS.

[angrypie]

The first beta was too crash-happy on real hardware (I mean real kernel panics), and it's still nowhere near the snappiness of the original BeOS. Still nice to have though.

But honestly I'd be more interested in an open-source OS/2 clone.

[Dr.N0]

Congratulations to the whole team!

[edwaleni]

But can it run PTS?

[S.Pam]

But can it run PTS?

That would be cool! At least some subtests probably would be possible =)

[awesz]

Under 300MB RAM usage upon fresh install. How nice for a feature-packed desktop OS!

[AmericanLocomotive]

Haiku is a pretty neat OS. Some of the UI things you can do with docking windows together is pretty cool.

[zexelon]

Under 300MB RAM usage upon fresh install. How nice for a feature-packed desktop OS!

Just out of curiosity, is this running on real or VM hardware?

[awesz]

Just out of curiosity, is this running on real or VM hardware?

VM, as for some reason it doesn't like my input devices.