The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1A2, its second official alpha release. Haiku is an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing intended for desktop use. Alpha 2 is a stable development release and a milestone on the way to the upcoming Release 1. (Ads) // Eight...
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This release features new swapcache, a tmpfs port, fast-fsync for HAMMER, improved random I/O, and numerous other goodies. 2.6.2 features a major bug fix to a HAMMER issue related to reblocking full filesystems. Users running a late 2.5 or the 2.6.1 release are urged to upgrade to 2.6.2 as soon as possible. 2.6.2 fixes a...
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Three release options are now available for 32-bit: Bare-bones CD ISO, Bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed), and a GUI bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment. The GUI USB image replaces the DVD ISO image in the previous release, to work around issues with DVDs simply being...
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FreeBSD 7.3 is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces a few new features. There will be one more release from this branch to allow future improvements to be made available in the 7-STABLE branch but at this point most FreeBSD...
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