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Haiku's Package Management System Goes Live
Haiku's packagefs-based management arrived in September 2013, replacing extracted installs with activated HPKG files and reversible states.
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Haiku R1/Beta1 Ships After Nearly Six Years of Work Since Alpha 4
Haiku R1 Beta 1 shipped on September 28, 2018, moving the project beyond its alpha series with package management and broader hardware work.
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Haiku R1/Beta 2 Ships in the Middle of a Global Lockdown
Haiku R1 Beta 2 shipped on June 9, 2020 with accumulated system, application, hardware, and compatibility improvements after Beta 1.
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Haiku R1/Beta 4 Closes Out 2022 with Broad Stability Work
Haiku R1 Beta 4 arrived on December 23, 2022 with another broad round of hardware, performance, application, and compatibility improvements.
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Haiku R1/Beta 5 Ships as the Project's Most Polished Release Yet
Released September 13, 2024, Beta 5 closed out nearly 350 bug and enhancement tickets, added a full GDB 15 port, and brought USB audio device support to the system.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Ships, Redefining Scalability and Preemption
Linux 2.6.0 arrived on December 17, 2003 with preemption, O(1) scheduling, NPTL support, SELinux, ALSA and a modern device model.
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b4: The Tool That Modernized Kernel Development's Email Patch Workflow
b4 turned lore.kernel.org message IDs into reproducible patch-series workflows while preserving email review, trailers and maintainer control.
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How CentOS Became CentOS Stream, and Why Rocky Linux Exists Because of It
The December 2020 CentOS Linux timeline change moved focus to Stream, ended CentOS 8 updates in 2021, and prompted Rocky and AlmaLinux.
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IBM Completes Its $34 Billion Acquisition of Red Hat
IBM announced its Red Hat agreement on October 28, 2018 and closed it July 9, 2019 for $190 cash per share and roughly $34 billion equity value.
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The Linux Kernel Replaces Its Code of Conflict With a Code of Conduct
How the kernel community's often-combative culture led to a September 2018 policy change, and Torvalds' own public acknowledgment his conduct needed to change.
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