First Haiku "Distribution" Released
Mar 12, 2007 19:42 UTC, by Kian Duffy, Senior Journalist
From the more-like-0.00.01-alpha department...

In a surprising, if not seriously premature move, the Polish Pingwinek Linux distribution has released version 0.1 of "Pingwinek GNU/Haiku". The 250MB download features Haiku r20362, and approximately 40 other packages, mostly ported over from the Linux distribution. These include the newest versions of autoconf and automake, the latest GCC 2.95.x series release from Haiku's source tree, and a collection of SDL games.
 
At the time of writing, their anonymous FTP server is overloaded (likely a good sign), but you can gawp at the screenshots, and check out the download page, where you should be able to download it in a while.
 
While there have been major advances in Haiku's stability recently, its not really stable enough to use as your main, or even secondary OS. The Haiku organisation has held off performing any form of release for these reasons, preferring to keep its userbase to those interested in developing the OS, and the dedicated users/testers. However, any increase in visibility can only been good for the fledgling OS, and a "Distro" may help coverage in the OSS media - to date, Haiku has been fairly well covered in the high-selling Linux Format magazine, but little else.