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Timestamp:: May 8, 2010, 6:47:47 PM (14 years ago)
Author:: luroh
Comment:: mention improved infrastructure

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R1/Alpha2/ReleaseNotes

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 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.
 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.
+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.
 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.
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 WiFi via FreeBSD 8 compatibility. Non-distributable firmwares can be installed via `install-wifi-firmwares.sh`. A temporary & experimental application `setwep` can allow WEP based encryption.
 Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) have been implemented. This help to alleviate the lack of proper IRQ routing.
+Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) have been implemented. This helps to alleviate the lack of proper IRQ routing.
 Fixed a network bug that could result in web pages being partially loaded.
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 Many lock contentions have been improved, leading to significantly better compilation times.
 Numerous code refactoring to kernel/VM subsystems
+Numerous code refactoring to kernel/VM subsystems.
 Font hinting in FreeType.
 Various vendor software has been updated, most notably bash from 2.x to 4.x
+Various vendor software has been updated, most notably bash from 2.x to 4.x.
 Introduced `installoptionalpackage`, a rudimentary script to alleviate the lack of a proper package management solution via PackageFS. It allows the installation of some of Haiku's OptionalPackages.
 Vastly improved USB mass storage performance through a better page mapping strategy
+Vastly improved USB mass storage performance through a better page mapping strategy.
 ACPI is now enabled by default.
 HDA on nvidia chipset improvements
+HDA on nvidia chipset improvements.
 The UDF file system module has been fixed
+The UDF file system module has been fixed.
 Various POSIX compliance fixes.
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  * Introduced library versioning
 Haiku GCC4 can now be compiled directly on a 64bit Linux distro. GCC2 still requires the use of `linux32`
+Haiku GCC4 can now be compiled directly on a 64bit Linux distro. GCC2 still requires the use of `linux32`.
+Created a new file image type, 'anyboot', which allows a Haiku image to be burned as an ISO or written directly to USB. To note, some burning software may try to be 'clever' and will incorrectly burn
+Created a new file image type, 'anyboot', which allows a Haiku image to be burned as an ISO or written directly to USB. To note, some burning software may try to be 'clever' and will incorrectly burn.
+Beefed-up Internet hosting infrastructure, thanks to our much-appreciated donors.