Haiku formerly known as OpenBeOS has now got its first distribution. The distribution is called GNU/Haiku 0.1.0 and is being released by Pingwinek.

Pingwinek also releases Pingwinek GNU/Linux, and their Haiku distribution includes the base Haiku system, the GCC 2.95.3 compiler, several simple games, SDL, Midnight Commander, and ncurses. It also includes 40 packages ported from the Pingwinek GNU/Linux distribution. The GNU/Haiku distribution can be installed on an HDD or run under QEMU or VMWare. There is also a LiveCD made available for download. The LiveCD boots slowly but the games work much better then running under QEMU or VMWare.

Haiku is not a Linux distribution. It is a self-contained operating system that includes a graphical user interface tightly tied to a unique graphics system, all configuration applications, development tools, the GNU tool chain, and a bash terminal.

You can download the distribution here. The Haiku operating system is still in alpha state and this distribution doesn’t have an installer which could install system on a hard disk. Take a look at the screenshots of the distribution working on a real hardware.