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Haiku
OpenBeOS (OBOS) is the new founded project on 18 August 2001 for the official continuation of BeOS as open source project. Not Shared Source of BeOS is rewritten to avoid licensed source code. Michael Phipps announced at the event WalterCon 2004 on 2004.06.19 the renaming of OpenBeOS in Haiku. Objectives of this project are the creation of a desktop operating system that requires no administration, is easy to use and has open source code. High Performance will be possible on older computers, even with complex applications. Only the BeOS modules Tracker as a file manager and the Deskbar as program menu has been adopted. All other components of the operating system are designed themselves or open source software.
As a development platform, Linux and BSD derivatives are used in future. Primary platform is the x86 32-bit and PowerPC architecture, SMP is supported. The first release of Haiku will be fully binary compatible for BeOS Release 5 (R5), offer advanced features and ease of use, containing numerous other improvements. A later release of this operating system will be support multi-user, 64-bit processors and use the new file system FutureHaikuFileSystem.
The recommended requirementx for haiku are at least a Pentium III CPU with 256 MB of memory and 2 GB of free disk space.
A preview version has been released with Haiku R1/Alpha 1 on 14/09/2009.
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| Haiku 321624, boot screen | Haiku 321624, system info and terminal | Haiku 321624, opened application menu |
| Date | Version |
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| 2009 Sept. | Haiku R1/Alpha 1 released |