| 5 | | These are the release notes for Haiku R1 Alpha 2. |
| | 5 | These are the release notes for Haiku R1 Alpha 2, our second official release. For this second alpha release, we strived to provide an improved version of Haiku that is more stable, and introduces more features for both the end-user and developer. |
| | 6 | We have tried hard to make this release as good as possible. Still there are a few known issues and missing features, some of them collected below. Please keep in mind that this is alpha software, which means it is not yet feature complete and still contains known and unknown bugs. While we are mostly confident in the stability of this release, we do not provide any assurances against data-loss. |
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| | 8 | Another goal that has driven the release of the Alpha 2 was to provide current and future Haiku developers an updated and (mostly) stable operating system to work on their software projects. Therefore we have included the basic build tools, along with clients for cvs, svn, git and hg. This release of Haiku is capable of building and running binaries using either GCC 2 or GCC 4. The use of GCC 4 is discouraged however if not absolutely necessary, as no API compatibility is guaranteed with future versions of Haiku. |
