The famous revolutionary operating system Be OS, initiated by Jean-Louis Gassée, is back, or let say its Open Source rewritten version, aka Haiku. Available in alpha1 version, this new operating system remains innovative and radically different from what we know today:
The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. The purpose of this release is to make a stable development snapshot of Haiku available to a wider audience for more extensive testing and debugging. This will help the Haiku development team identify and address bugs, and thus improve the quality of the system as development keeps advancing towards the subsequent development milestones. Bugs found in Alpha 1 should be reported to the Haiku bug tracking system at http://
