Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 2

Thanks for this great release. Its great to see the project progress at such a fast pace.

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THANK YOU FOR ALL EFFORTS!!!

Thank you all for the effort.Downloading right away...

Congratulations on this milestone!

Burned the ISO to my DVDRW disc using Ubuntu and went live CD on reboot. Very fast and stable especially for a live CD. Webpositive worked great too. A+ on this release for the alpha 2 and will give it a brand new fast hard drive of its very own.

Already heard of one guy loading it on his netbook via pendrive and going wireless with it.

I have downloaded all images (iso, anyboot, vmdk) via torrent and all zips are broken. The md5sums dont match.
A download from a webserver (lund, sweden) works ok.

Is there a problem with the torrents?

Oh, and great work everyone! :-)

So there's no nightly right now, but I'm used to working with a raw image to update what's on my disk. Is there a way to get a raw of alpha 2? If not, when do nightlies resume?

Kev

Congratulations to the Haiku Team! :)

Why is it, Alpha 1 ran flawlessly on all 3 of my computers, yet Alpha 2 refuses to run on ANY of them?

It KDL's on QuadSlacker ("disk not found" or some such; never even finishes the boot icons!), it locks up at the language option menu on Athlonica 64 X2, and it locks up at a blue desktop (no icons, just the mouse pointer) on Athlonica, out in my workshop.

I am going to try to boot it on an ancient Pentium II 266 system I have, next.

I can't get any Syslog info to you, because it never gets far enough to even do that!

Why is this happening? What is wrong? Wasn't Alpha 2 supposed to work BETTER, not WORSE?

Awesome release!! Liking Web+ so much better than BeZilla
Looking goood Haiku. Excellent work devs, :D

Before anything else, CONGRATS, and THANK YOU, for everything you've done and are doing. LONG LIVE HAIKU

Having serious problems with this one. Downloaded the ISO from 3 different places and it always stops loading at libwebcore.so . So I downloaded the anyboot, and wrote it to a flash drive. That seemed to work ok, but that image leaves you no extra space to do anything, cant download anything etc, So I used the flash drive to install to a second partition on a laptop,

That went ok, until I rebooted the laptop, then everything went crazy, deskbar moved to the bottom of the screen, settings kept changing, nothing wanted to work etc. Changed settings in deskbar, just to check them a minute later, and found they were set different yet again. It made no sense at all. But after a long time, wireless started working, and I could get on line, tested webpositive,,, Good to see it back,,, and worked on facebook and ebay, GREAT!!!

but then a minute later, wireless stopped working again. Seems to need reset every now and then. Then, on top of everything, Webpositive keeps downloading files without being told to. Every few minutes, Webpositive pops open a download window, and boom, I have a file on my desktop, that I have no idea where it came from or why its there,,, very, very, creepy

Finally, decided to download ISO by torrent. And burn CD using disk at once setting. Now the CD will do a full install, but after reboot the system just locks on memory testing, re-image back to Windows, and everything works perfect again

Go back to Alpha 1, and everything is fine, just don't have wireless, so its not practical to use

While its great to see another milestone passed, and super great to have wireless working, sometimes,,

it seems like Alpha 2 might have been a little premature

Happy as hell to see it, but I hope it doesn't scare people away when they have problems with it. Hopefully this will get more people using it, and maybe that will draw more people to help or donate. Or at least know its out there. But it does seem to be pretty buggy yet, and these new bugs are very weird. I cant figure out why my settings keep changing by themselves, or how the heck the deskbar got moved to the bottom of the screen

I think the powers behind Haiku, might have to release a "Alpha 2.1" sometime real soon. Or allot of people may try this Alpha, just to toss the CD away, and never try Haiku again

On a final note, Looking at the first CD I tried, seems it's a dos/fat CD ? with short file names and zip file like packaging ? Didnt really look at it hard, just a quick glance. But is that something new or different. Are you not at the point yet, where the CD can have BeOS / Haiku, formatting ? I'm a little confused on how its installing like that. If it can run or install like that, then why cant it be made to just install and run, on a FAT / FAT32, drive ? Save us all from having to reformat our drives ?

Nice release. Boots perfectly in both computers I tested it on. Mediaplayer is a bit easy to crash, but otherwise it is very nice.

Spectacular release!
Wireless works for my Atheros AR928X out of the box, as well as WEP encryption when using the setwep command. setwep is a no-brainer, which makes me wonder why a tool like iwconfig in Linux still will not work with my card/network. My only problem is that the network eventually slows to a near-halt after some heavy web traffic, although I have honestly not researched this problem much.
I initially had the same problem as some others with the install hanging on libwebcore.so, but circumvented this by simply installing from a live usb key.
I've finally installed this one to the hard drive, which means I'm getting serious about using Haiku part-time. Progress seems to be quick lately; can't wait to see where this project will be in another year or so. I hope to eventually use Haiku full-time!