I know there’s the roadmap (https://dev.haiku-os.org/roadmap) showing 97%, but after Haiku’s Lunduke interviews, LibreOffice 6 port, and other exciting things which have happened with Haiku garnering excitement with the system/project, how close is Haiku with its first Beta, exactly?
I wish more talk of Beta, or at least little re-assurances of ‘when x is up’ or ‘when y is finished’ could be talked about more, as I am genuinely curious (and I think others are too). Haiku is reaching its 16th birthday in four days, and around this time this year, the Beta was being mentioned around then as well. I’m sorry I can’t do anything low-level (which is where everything matters) to get Haiku to this point personally, so please understand I don’t mean to complain as Haiku has made excellent progress, but again, with 08/18 coming up, how close are we to reaching Beta 1?
Does anyone know? Even if its just a guess, like ‘before January’ or ‘once a server is up’. I’d love to post about it if there’s hope for it coming soon. Thanks!
Dates have come and gone on Beta estimates, and I am not in the know at all, but be a watcher rather than an participator for it. And watch Fuchsia as well…
I have been holding off saying anything because so much has been said before and nothing came of it … but we are very, very, very close. As in, the strings freeze might be a week or two away, and everything else within a month of that.
How do you figure? Haiku was created in August 2001. This means its first birthday was in August 2002, and its sixteenth birthday will be in a few days. Birthdays are a form of anniversary, they happen only in years subsequent to the original event.
PulkoMandy has this correct and I apparently don’t remember this is 2018 rather than 2017.
Sometimes I get confused with this a little (about whether 2001 itself is being counted), so I just count step-by-step like this:
2001 - 0 years
2002 - 1 year
2003 - 2 years
2004 - 3 years
2005 - 4 years
2006 - 5 years
2007 - 6 years
2008 - 7 years (add 10 years to get 2018 - 17 years)
2009 - 8 years
2010 - 9 years
2011 - 10 years
2012 - 11 years
2013 - 12 years
2014 - 13 years
2015 - 14 years
2016 - 15 years
2017 - 16 years
2018 - 17 years
I guess I didn’t count 2001 in there; I admit to the ‘off-by-one’ error too.
But in going back to the original topic about the next release, I always am appreciative of the monthly logs showing what has been happening to the Nightlies in the background. Those offer so much hope. And I have to say this definitely encouraged me:
I think it’ll be a really exciting day for the project when the first Beta does arrive… hopefully, from the time frame given, I’m hoping for sometime this fall. (Though I think I can even say along with others here that even if it’s in time for the holidays, it’d still be awesome!).
Ryzen systems work; they just need the EFI loader I think? Anyway, I don’t expect any major bug-fixes between now and the beta if that’s what you’re asking, unless @kallisti5 suddenly decides to be extra motivated…
So stick to that. I’ll sleep extra hours for you if I have to, just stay awake and push that beta out. 
