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| 2021-07-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Haiku R1 Beta 3 |
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The third beta of the inaugural stable release of Haiku, an independently-developed, open-source operating system for personal computers, is now ready for testing. A successor of BeOS, the new Haiku release comes with an improved installer and hardware drivers, updated ports of many popular software packages, and numerous bug fixes: "Poetry is in motion. The Haiku Project, its developers and team members announced that the Haiku operating system released its third beta build, version R1/Beta3, on July 25th, 2021. Version R1B3 continues the trend of more frequent releases to provide users and developers with an up-to-date and stable platform to work on. This release combines the best of Haiku’s history as a spiritual successor of BeOS and the hard work of a passionate community. It provides several new features and performance improvements that make Haiku even better." See the release announcement and release notes for detailed information about this beta snapshot. The new Haiku ISO image is available fro both x86_64 and i386 architectures; download links (pkglist): haiku-r1beta3-x86_64-anyboot.iso (719MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), haiku-r1beta3-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.iso (714MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in development, that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels. The key highlights that distinguish Haiku from other operating systems include: specific focus on personal computing, custom kernel designed for responsiveness, fully threaded design for great efficiency with multi-processor/core CPUs, rich object-oriented API for faster development, database-like file system (BFS) with support for indexed metadata, and unified, cohesive interface.
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| 2024-09-13 |
Development Release: Haiku R1 Beta 5 |
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Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in beta development, that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, and simple to use. The project latest release, R1 Beta 5, introduces a number of performance improvements, particularly with networking, simplifies adjusting the theme, and ports several open source applications to Haiku. "Simplified color selection and 'Dark mode': Instead of displaying all 30-odd color options in the Appearance preferences and making users edit all of them, by default only three are shown, and the rest are automatically computed whenever one of these three are changed. (The full set of colours can still be edited manually, for any users that want to do that.) This new automatic color selection mode is fully 'dark mode'-aware; it will switch to using light text colours when users select dark panel background colours, and vice versa. In addition, there were many fixes throughout the system and in built-in applications to handle user-selected colours and 'dark mode' more correctly (especially as regards control gradients, as you can see here; though some of these are already not an issue if one uses the 'Flat' decorator and control look from the 'Haiku Extras' package)." Additional information is provided in the Haiku release notes. Download (SHA256): haiku-r1beta5-x86_64-anyboot.iso (1,408MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2022-12-23 |
Development Release: Haiku R1 Beta 4 |
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Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in development, that specifically targets personal computing and is inspired by the Be Operating System. The project's latest release is the operating system's fourth beta release. One of the big updates in this release is the expansion of new software ports: "Thanks to (at first) the new X11 compatibility layer, and (now) the new Wayland compatibility layer (more details below), there is now a working GTK3 port for Haiku! Ports of Inkscape, GIMP, and more are now available for immediate install, and more GTK applications are being added to HaikuPorts as time goes on. One of the newly available GTK applications is GNOME Web aka. Epiphany, which is based on a very recent version of WebKitGTK. This provides an unfortunately non-native but largely functional web browser for Haiku for the first time in many years, with “just works” status for major websites like YouTube and others. Haiku has had terminal-based GNU Emacs for some time, but now (thanks to Emacs developers!) has a fully-upstreamed, polished-to-a-shine native GUI. You can install it from HaikuDepot already, or check out a development branch of Emacs and build it yourself." Further information is provided in the project's release notes. Download (SHA256): haiku-r1beta4-x86_64-anyboot.iso (1,408MB, pkglist). |
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| 2020-06-09 |
Development Release: Haiku R1 Beta 2 |
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Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in development, that specifically targets personal computing. It is inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS). The project's latest release is Haiku R1 Beta 2 which introduces improvements to HiDPI support, introduces ports of several new open source programs, and input device configuration has been merged into one configuration tool. "Begun but significantly incomplete at the time of Beta 1, this release sees a significant advancement in support for HiDPI monitors (and UI scaling in general.) Unlike other operating systems which largely enact a 'device pixel ratio', that converts a number of 'internal pixels' to 'screen pixels', Haiku instead scales everything based on font size, and leaves pixels to mean 'screen pixels' in isolation. This also means that one can effectively change the UI size and scale on any display by changing the system font size, and everything else should adjust to match it. Below are two screenshots, showing ActivityMonitor and AboutSystem with a 12pt font size on the left (Haiku’s default), and with an 18pt font size on the right (in other words, 150% of 'normal'.)" Further information can be found in the project's release notes. Download (SHA256): haiku-r1beta2-x86_64-anyboot.zip (955MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-09-29 |
Development Release: Haiku R1 Beta 1 |
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It took the developers nearly six years to move from alpha 4 to beta 1, but it's finally here - Haiku R1/beta1 has been released. Haiku is a free and open-source general-purpose operating system inspired by the defunct BeOS. The most notable change in this release is the introduction of a package management system: "After nearly 6 years since R1/alpha4, Haiku R1/beta1 has been released. ... By far the largest change in this release is the addition of a complete package management system. Finalized and merged during 2013 thanks to a series of contracts funded from donations, Haiku's package management system is unique in a variety of ways. Rather than keeping a database of installed files with a set of tools to manage them, Haiku packages are a special type of compressed filesystem image, which is 'mounted' upon installation (and thereafter on each boot) by the packagefs, a kernel component. This means that the /system/ hierarchy is now read-only, since it is merely an amalgamation of the presently installed packages at the system level (and the same is true for the ~/config/ hierarchy, which contains all the packages installed at the user level), ensuring that the system files themselves are incorruptible." Here is the brief release announcement, with much more details and screenshots provided in the release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): haiku-r1beta1-x86_64-anyboot.zip (887MB, torrent), haiku-r1beta1-x86_gcc2_hybrid-anyboot.zip (933MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-11-13 |
Development Release: Haiku R1 Alpha 4 |
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Alexander von Gluck IV has announced the availability of the fourth alpha release of Haiku R1, an open-source operating system that targets personal computing, inspired by BeOS: "The Haiku project is excited to announce the availability of our fourth official alpha release. A year and four months have passed since the alpha 3 and the Haiku project has been busy. The main purpose of this release is to provide interested third-party developers with a stable version for testing and development. To aid with that, Haiku includes a rich set of development tools. This release features many improvements across the board, including: over 1,000 bugs have been fixed since the alpha 3 release; new native debugger application; BFS is more robust; improved NTFS support; better Blu-ray disc support; Improved USB OHCI Drivers and CPU identification...." See the release announcement and release notes for a full list of changes and improvements. Download (MD5): haiku-r1alpha4.1-iso.zip (244MB, torrent). |
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