Working great in VirtualBox (as expected) after changing the network driver. Writing from Web+ including using KeePassXC to get my Lobsters password.
The last time I used Haiku was pretty much exactly 4 years ago. According to my VM notes, I upgraded from nightly hrev47114 14/04/13 to hrev47788 14/09/01. If I recall, using the package system to do upgrades was somewhat new at that time and I was playing with it.
Just today someone was looking for a file system that could store metadata and a tool to view it. I was reminded how amazing using BeOS was.
Zeta was my daily driver until it was revealed to be a not quite legal continuation of BeOS. I switched to Haiku and kept it around for a while until it got outpaced by the progress of the web and I had to jump to a more mainstream OS.
Haiku was already good when the alpha releases were coming out. Can’t wait to get the beta installed.
In the last days of Be’s existence, someone leaked a nearly-complete copy of the BeOS R5 source code to BeShare (which was one of the reasons the main server got shut down around the same time, IIRC.)
I’m not sure how what seemed like one guy developing Zeta got ahold of the source. It wasn’t until he sold it to a company that the rightful IP owners took notice.
Working great in VirtualBox (as expected) after changing the network driver. Writing from Web+ including using KeePassXC to get my Lobsters password.
The last time I used Haiku was pretty much exactly 4 years ago. According to my VM notes, I upgraded from nightly hrev47114 14/04/13 to hrev47788 14/09/01. If I recall, using the package system to do upgrades was somewhat new at that time and I was playing with it.
Congrats @waddlesplash on yall getting this far!
Hooray!
Just today someone was looking for a file system that could store metadata and a tool to view it. I was reminded how amazing using BeOS was.
Zeta was my daily driver until it was revealed to be a not quite legal continuation of BeOS. I switched to Haiku and kept it around for a while until it got outpaced by the progress of the web and I had to jump to a more mainstream OS.
Haiku was already good when the alpha releases were coming out. Can’t wait to get the beta installed.
I never understood how that happened. How did they get a hold of the source code to create Zeta? I thought Palm bought Be.
In the last days of Be’s existence, someone leaked a nearly-complete copy of the BeOS R5 source code to BeShare (which was one of the reasons the main server got shut down around the same time, IIRC.)
I’m not sure how what seemed like one guy developing Zeta got ahold of the source. It wasn’t until he sold it to a company that the rightful IP owners took notice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussoft_ZETA
Rightful owners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_(company)
wait, “proper” unique URL to use for this story
Eh, that’s really just the “RSS feeds click-through” post. The release notes are a better landing target.
True, but it’s not really a permalink as more releases come in, is it?
Right, I suppose that is true. It seems the news item has been merged into this story.
Exciting! Will this boot from a USB drive on an Intel Mac, or does it need to be on a hard drive with reFIt etc?
It should work on either. However, I’ve heard reports that the XHCI drivers don’t work properly on recent Macs… so, your mileage may vary.
Great - I’m hoping to run it on a few-year-old MBA so should be cool. Looking forward to trying it out. Thanks!