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Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released (www.haiku-os.org)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The sixth beta for Haiku R1 comes just about a week after Haiku’s 25th anniversary. We’ve come a long way since the project began a quarter-century ago in 2001. Thank you to everyone who’s supported us thus far, and here’s to another 25 years of Haiku!

This release contains almost two years of the development team’s hard work to improve Haiku’s features and overall stability, and to make more software available for use. Over 530 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.

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[–] 8 points 2 months ago

Using Haiku as a virtualization host is genuinely exciting. I expect that would absolutely scream.

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Anyone get it on hardware?

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Finally. I played with it some 2 days ago, and despite promoting Beta 5 as latest, that repo was already removed and I couldn't even update it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yep I just did a fresh install myself seeing as I couldn't update it from the repos.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I just changed r1beta5 to r1beta6 in the repo manager, which worked.
    I don't know how wrong that was though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    If you're not having crashes Etc? Probably not at all. I didn't even really think of that. Though I don't actually keep any data on the laptop. It's an old 2 gigahertz core two Duo . With a spinning rust hard drive. I use it mostly As a home assistant dashboard and interface.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Very nice. If the official availability of Firefox is a big hurdle. I know you could get it previously through third party sources I currently have an old laptop running B5. This will make it so much easier to get up and running. Just install and go for most people

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Firefox code has been usable even before Beta 6, but without official trademark aggreement the browser was called Iceweasel (as it had been on Debian before)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yep I went through all that with several Linux distributions in the past as well. But for the average person this is a big step towards usability. Unfortunately name recognition means a lot to the average person. Whether or not ice weasel et all were identical apart from branding.

    In a sea of alien changes. It is a smiling and welcome old friend for them. I already have most of my relatives on Linux at this point. Though I have a few old early Intel Core laptops that are prime candidates to run haiku.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Neat

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