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Haiku beta 5 release notes

Posted by win8linux
Tags: open source, operating systems, haiku, osdev
https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta5/release-notes/

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  1. [3]
    conception
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    Windows is trash but the thing I’ll never forgive Microsoft for is for killing BeOS. At the time it was so far ahead. And the fact the government went after them for Netscape but not BeOS is a...

    Windows is trash but the thing I’ll never forgive Microsoft for is for killing BeOS. At the time it was so far ahead. And the fact the government went after them for Netscape but not BeOS is a tragedy.

    6 votes
    1. [2]
      public
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      Don’t forget to also blame Apple for sleeping on BeOS in favor of NeXT to be the core of OS X.

      Don’t forget to also blame Apple for sleeping on BeOS in favor of NeXT to be the core of OS X.

      3 votes
      1. conception
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        Eh Next came with Jobs so that made sense at the time. And it’s worked out… pretty well for them.

        Eh Next came with Jobs so that made sense at the time. And it’s worked out… pretty well for them.

        4 votes
  2. [2]
    win8linux
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    Haiku beta 5 released The fifth beta release of Haiku is now available! Highlights Simplified colour scheme settings with dark mode awareness Basic USB audio device support TUN/TAP network driver...

    Haiku beta 5 released

    The fifth beta release of Haiku is now available!

    Highlights

    • Simplified colour scheme settings with dark mode awareness
    • Basic USB audio device support
    • TUN/TAP network driver for VPNs
    • Custom colour scheme settings in Terminal
    • Read-only UF2 driver
    • Rewritten FAT driver
      

    HaikuPorts highlights

    • GDB 15
    • Nextcloud client
    • Experimental .NET Core 8 and 9
    • FLTK
    5 votes
    1. adutchman
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      Quite cool that they got .net working, though I don't immediately see the benefit (as far as I know there aren't many non-windows compatible desktop apps)

      Quite cool that they got .net working, though I don't immediately see the benefit (as far as I know there aren't many non-windows compatible desktop apps)

      4 votes