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An OS for Personal Computing
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| GNU/Linux has lots of features for the
| desktop and the server side. However,
| there are problems with Linux-based
| operating systems. Being a monolithic
| kernel, people often find the system
| becomes unresponsive when using a
| GNU/Linux system. Another major problem,
| especially for new users, is choosing
| between various distributions. They end up
| installing a distribution that has more
| apps and services than they actually need
| (or that their hardware can support) for
| their day to day use, which also serves to
| slow down their systems.
|
| This article introduces you to an
| operating system called Haiku, which
| serves as a good starting point for
| aspiring students and those interested in
| hacking on operating systems.
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http://www.linuxforu.com/previews/an-os-for-personal-computing/
Recent:
Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack
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| Haiku OS, the nine year old project to develop
| an open-source BeOS-compatible operating
| system, is hoping it will receive a new OpenGL
| stack this year. The Haiku project, like
| X.Org, will be participating in this year's
| Google Summer of Code project where the search
| engine giant pays many student developers to
| work on code for various open-source projects.
| There's a long list of ideas for where Haiku
| OS could use some help, and one of them
| includes a hardware 3D acceleration stack.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA1NQ
Haiku alpha: Wow. Just wow.
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| For alpha release software, this is a very promising show. I
| like almost everything about this â the size of the
| installation, the desktop look, the clean way the system
| applications and desktop widgets handle themselves. If I can
| track down why the network was inaccessible I definitely plan
| on reinstalling it and giving it another whirl.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/haiku-alpha-wow-just-wow/
Hands-on: Haiku, the future of BeOS, is pure poetry
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| In the spirit of BeOS, Haiku's boot performance is very
| good. In my tests, I got from the startup splash screen
| to a fully usable desktop in roughly four seconds. This
| is one of Haiku's strengths relative to modern
| operating systems and it is the envy of prominent Linux
| distributions that are ambitiously aiming for similarly
| fast startup.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/hands-on-with-haiku-back-to-the-future-of-beos.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Haiku OS Beta 1: Simple Is Beautiful
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| Two things about Haiku stand in stark contrast to Linux. The first is
| the licensing -- it's far more liberally licensed than Linux, and so
| lends itself to being shaped and implemented in far broader ways. The
| other is how Haiku is developed -- as a total desktop stack, rather
| than a kernel plus userland tools plus windowing system plus window
| manager, etc., etc. It's already made a great deal of difference in
| terms of the way the whole thing feels and works. It embodies
| elegance, even if some of the individual windowing/UI metaphors are a
| bit aged and could use some slicking-up.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/09/haiku_os_beta_1.html;jsessionid=DUCFFAA0UDD3BQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN
Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1
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| This will help the Haiku development team identify and address bugs, and thus
| improve the quality of the system as development keeps advancing towards the
| subsequent development milestones. Bugs found in Alpha 1 should be reported to
| the Haiku bug tracking system at http://dev.haiku-os.org.
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http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2009-09-13_haiku_project_announces_availability_haiku_r1alpha_1
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