"Eight months ago we announced our ambitious plan to make webOS available under an open source license and bring the innovation of the webOS platform to the open source community," reads the on the webOS Blog. "We are proud to have hit another milestone with today's beta release."

Fifty-four webOS components are now available in open source form, specifically, bringing forth more than 450,000 lines of code released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Meanwhile, the webOS team is continuing its hiring drive, the post announces; a page lists open positions.

Steady Progress

To recap, HP last August that it planned to discontinue its webOS tablets and phones. Soon afterwards, it made the decision to , enabling developers and manufacturers to use the Linux-based operating system for their own purposes.