Haiku pre alpha released
August 1, 2008 – 2:41 pmA word of OS news today: a pre alpha snapshot of Haiku, an OS project optimized to run on the eee pc (along with other machines), is available.
Haiku is an open source descendant of BeOS, a proprietary operating system that had a good momentum in the nineties.
BeOS was founded by ex Apple engineers, may have been bought by Apple in ‘96, and ended its way in the hands of Palm Inc.
Haiku is meant to continue the BeOS tradition, but as an open source project.
You can find a video of Haiku booting on an eee pc 701, via VMWare, here.
The boot time seems impressive, about 20s on the video. Haiku will operate very fast on the eee pc’s hardware.
The snapshot is an early alpha, wifi and networking still have to be fixed and there isn’t a bootable image yet, but the project looks quite promising.
Haiku Official page
2 Responses to “Haiku pre alpha released”
> A word of OS news today, for the pre alpha
> release of Haiku, an OS project customized
> for the Asus Eee pc.
There are two inacurracies in this statement:
1) There has been no Haiku release yet (pre-alpha, alpha or otherwise). The Eee shown in the video is running a snapshot from the development tree.
2) Haiku is not specifically customized for the ASUS Eee; at this point it primarily targets the x86 architecture, but ports for other arch are also being worked on (they are lower priority, though).
Nice to see Haiku mentioned though.
By kokito on Aug 1, 2008
Hello, Kokito.
You are completely right, thanks for the corrections.
I must say I have never used BeOS, so I’m quite curious about this project.
Welcome
By admin on Aug 2, 2008