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Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend

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FWIW beta 1 is out now, this is a look back at the alpha milestone in 2009

And beta 2 should be coming soon. There's only one blocking issue left on the bug tracker [1].

[1] https://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=assigned&status=in-pro...

(Haiku developer here.) Some of those P=high should really be blockers (and the one blocker currently there is a trivial task essentially there as a reminder to do it while making driver ABI changes.) I should do that, actually.

IMHO, Beta 2 should be held back until _at least_ USB Wifi devices are supported. I can't get most of my laptops to work, and the tried-and-true trusted Wifi USB dongles I use on various ARM projects just don't work because Haiku doesn't support _any_ USB Wifi.

I love booting Haiku up in a VM and spending an hour or two here or there pretending I’m one of the lucky few who got a Be Box in the 90s. I was a Super Nintendo and Windows PC clone kid, but I had Neo Geo and Be Box taste.

Me too. Neo Geo taste, Turbo Grafx 16 budget :-/

Just wish Haiku could distributed the old music that came from Be, included such great tubes as "BeOS - it's my OS" and "Virtual(void)" which lamented rebooting multiple times.

Happily, they're available online:

Virtual (Void) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpgLFEHrWSA

5038 BeOS It's The OS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlOi-L-N0X4

These were from a small group of Be engineers that had a band called "The Cotton Squares".

According to kallisti5 (a Haiku dev), they may have permission to redistribute. They should!

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/the-cotton-squares-new-tunes/...

Oh, man. I know what I am listening to tonight!

They missed an opportunity to release an album called "The Be Sides"

> an album called "The Be Sides"

Does it available somewhere?

There was "The Cotton Squares" 3 songs in MP3, but, sadly download links are dead now.[0]

FTR, Thanks to linked HaikuOS Forum thread, ~10 year old Reddit request could be solved finally.[1]

[0] http://www.oocities.org/sbarta30/fanmusic.html

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/haikuOS/comments/c6lkp/the_beos_son...

Archive.org has a list of songs available in MP3 and OGG format [0]

The tracks available are:

1. 5038

2. BeOS talking blues

3. be3d

4. focus pocus

5. search and replace

6. the magnetik zones of love

7. virtual (void) 3.0 techno remix

8. virtual (void) the coustic mix

9. virtual (void) the beos remix

There is also a host of other media, including images of CDs, User Guides, and Videos [1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/TheCottonSquares

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22BeOS%22

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