Vasper, the BeOS Max hero, has announced that he will start working on ‘WalterOS’. Originally Vasper already wanted to form BeOS Max into a Haiku distribution after Max 3.1 but in the meantime there has also been a 4.0 release of Max.

WalterOS has two main goals, the first is to create an Haiku system that can be installed and used by the more technically-challenged under us, the latter being that Vasper wants to help Haiku to gain users in the coming time. Although Vasper doesn’t give an expected timeframe for his project, the main Haiku devs have always said that they wanted to keep Haiku away from the avarage joe until the goals for R1 are mostly met. I suspect that Vasper will respect this, and will not do a full release until the base Haiku R1 goes live.

Btw, the final name for Walter is not decided yet, find out how to propose another name here.

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