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Haiku Booting!

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mmadia:
Haiku,   http://haiku-os.org
( formerly known as OpenBeOS )
The open-source (mostly MIT) effort to re-implement BeOS R5 as Haiku R1 can now be booted directly from your hard drive!

Currently, Haiku is only command-line utils as the app_server is still in intense development.   While Haiku itself is only CLI, many other programs, libraries, etc... are ready and can be already used in BeOS R5 ( eg, preference apps, translation kit, input kit, mail daemon replacment, to name a few).  

Regardless it's very nice to have something bootable to play with.

Haiku's source tree can be downloaded, compiled, and packaged into a BFS image file,  which can then be extracted onto a BFS partition.

Here is a pre-made image file,  simple expand, mount the image, and copy to a BFS partition.  

http://www.schmidp.com/public/misc/haiku.image.zip


any chance of getting updating the OS listing on the main page to reflect the new name and website change?

MrX:
just downloaded it, and am figuring out how to install it to an extra hdd i have, with a BFS partition.

Mr X

MrX:
actually found out that the link with the shiznit stinks, and is a very incomplete OS. this is the better one to download:
http://209.15.19.223/haiku/factory/Haiku-Distro-x86.tgz

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