Haiku Alpha 2

[the_leander]

So am I the only one excited about this project? Am I the only one typing in these forums who is using this gem of an OS?!?!

Nope.

I can not believe how well this works considering that its only on its second Alpha Release. Amazing!!!!

It also plays quite nicely on 701 netbooks.

I've even heard that you can install this on a system with only 48Mb of RAM, just like in the old BeOS days.

I wouldn't recommend trying it with less than 64Mb of ram unless you seriously enjoy the sound of your hard drive thrashing around like an epileptic. That goes for BeOS as well.

[the_leander]

I like ZETA and Haiku, ZETA is more complete and BeOS compatible.

Zeta has been EOL for over 3 years now. It died after Palm pointed out that the code had been illegally obtained and that Yellowtab/Magnussoft had no legal right to distribute, much less opensource parts of the code.

Haiku is BeOS R5 binary compatible and a complete ground up opensource re-implementation of BeOS. As for Zeta's compatibility... Being based on the (leaked) BeOS R5.1d0 codebase, there were key differences in Zeta that broke or hobbled an awful lot of BeOS applications in much the same way as the jump from AOS1.3 to AOS2.x did.

[the_leander]

Glad to see that some of you got your eyes on this at least. I remember first reading about BeOS in an issue of CU Amiga or Amiga Format (I forget which), and I was blown away by what I was seeing and reading about. At the time I seriously thought of it as the future of Amiga.

CU Amiga July 1998, "Amiga drops the bombshell"

Fantastic issue. And I agree - at the time it looked like what AmigaOS would have been had someone sat down and decided to rework it in a more modern context. I was deeply saddened when Be.Inc died not 3 years after that magazine came out.

I once interviewed Bernd Korz of Yellowtab just prior to their going bust. He seemed like a highly enthusiastic bloke. It's a shame that he essentially lied through his back teeth with regard the legality of Zeta, as it really was starting to show real promise.