On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry for the cross-posting, but as it is good news I thought I would > share it with you guys. Today I committed r24720 and, with that, I was > able to compile Haiku inside itself without the neewd for any hacks or > reboots or anything like that (using VMWare with 1 Gb of memory > available to the VM). I also run the generated image in VMWare and it > booted (I didn't test it much tough). > > Although this is April's 1st (and some of you will probably think it is > a joke), this means that we are able to self-host now and pending > something else that we may find during testing, this means we are > self-hosting as of today. > > You can start the fireworks! :) > > -Bruno > > Ps: Juts wnated to point out that this would not be possible without the > huge amount of time the developers have spent on getting this working > and, specifically, the amount of time Axel spent fixing VM/cache bugs > and the amount Ingo spent getting the build system working inside Haiku. > So kudos to them. > > > That is the best news that I've heard in a long time. Thanks for all the hard work folks! -- Dennis d'Entremont IT Professional CNA, MCP, A+, ITIL LinkedIn Profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisdentremont http://www.techalpha.net - Tech Alpha Computer Forums http://nerfd.net - Nerfd Technologies http://eComStation.ca - Your Canadian Source for eCS and OS/2 Software! http://Haikuware.com - Software for Haiku http://Haiku-OS.org - Haiku Operating System