Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1

I remember when the OpenBeOS mailing first first started out back in Aug 2001, and the sheer enthusiasm with which the project started. OK, so we thought we can pull this off in 3 years, but hey, thats project estimation for you. The joys we all witnessed when the kernel first booted, the tears in our eyes when we saw the first screen shots of a window hosted by the app server, the first screen shots of OpenTracker running on the OS, the unmatched excitement when we first saw VLC and Firefox running, the pride we felt when we heard that you can now 'build-haiku-from-haiku', and now finally we've reached the point where we're sending our baby out to the world. It's been an exciting journey.

Congratulations everyone, the Haiku community has brought all of us much joy during the last decade. And we'll only get stronger / bigger in the following years ...

Congratulations on such an achievement through persistence! And I have to say, I really like the fresh makeover of the website! Cheers!

Well done to the Haiku team for the Alpha 1 release - excellent work! :)

The new site looks great! Thanks everyone involved in making the release happen as planned! Exciting times! Awesome to be part of this team! I am also looking forward to BeGeistert in October. It seems the event will be one of the bigger ones in the history of BeGeistert. Plenty of good stuff like workshops planned and I am sure we will have a fun time celebrating the release! :-D

I lived to see this event happen.Finally a great and a suitable OS for my acer aspire one.

Congratulations! I'm stoked to get this running on one of my boxes.

Well i didn't see that comming for 2009. Can't wait to see more coming! :D

I can't believe! It's perfect! How long I've been waiting for! Tanks Folks!
I just want this OS becomes my only one!

tks!

And, remember... NONE of this would have been possible, had "The Luposian Bug" not been squashed into oblivion! *ducks rotten tomatoes hurled vigorously in mine direction*

Congrats to one and all. Seriously! To the people who continued to believe in the project, no matter how many years passed, and followed it every step of the way. And, especially, to the developers (Axel Dorfler comes to mind, as a champion among them) who had the guts to keep hammering away at it, all these years. Piece by piece. Byte by byte. Never giving up on the dream that Haiku will, one day, BE the BeOS, that BeOS never had the chance to become.

And, man... does the Haiku website look awesome or WHAT! Very nice, indeed!

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gives shade not fruit to people
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Congratulations to everyone involved in the project!

I'm very proud you all made it this far... I was somehow involved in the early stages of OpenBeOS in the "Creative Design Team"... We were never more than a few crazy designers brainstorming ideas and random designs, but i feel like i was part of something in a way, we kind of helped this stay alive for a while!

It was fun, and now i'll give it a try!

Once again, Congratulations!

This thing is really Great. Thanks for selfhosting, working bdb and darkwyrm's BeIDE clone.

The bad: the system doesn't boot on VAIO SZ neither from flash nor CD and even with "space-bar" bootstrap tuning. Booting lock-ups on third icon (in boot log on "achi" message, sorry can't copy or specify more precisely).

I'm so happy, that Haiku is now bootable from cd !! I'd love this OS, and hope that someday it will be my personal one and only OS !!

This is an exciting time for we Haiku developers, and though it has been a long time in the making, it is still a proud moment.

I hope all the people waiting for a release before using Haiku can now finally try it out!