http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:31:21 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25405/Haiku_Video_Tutorial/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25405/Haiku_Video_Tutorial/ "So... I have finally gotten around to finishing the Haiku tutorial I set out to complete over a year ago. I was hoping to have it done sooner, but I decided to then prolong graduation for another year. However, my thesis project has been a rocking success, and you can finally see the fruits of my labors. This production should be incorporated into the project as official tutorial material." Okay so yeah it's a tad bit cheesy, but heck, it's BeOS, so shut up. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:44:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 40 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25215/Haiku_Gets_WEP_WPA_WPA2_Support/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25215/Haiku_Gets_WEP_WPA_WPA2_Support/ Oh gosh, finally news that's got nothing to do with patents or smartphones or the comparing of male sexual organs. Haiku news! Michael Lotz has added preliminary support for WPA to Haiku, taking the first steps towards making the Haiku wireless stack a lot more useful. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:36:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 72 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News zizban http://www.osnews.com/story/25135/Haiku_Gains_Early_VirtualBox_Guest_Addition_Drivers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25135/Haiku_Gains_Early_VirtualBox_Guest_Addition_Drivers/ Thanks to the hard work of Google Summer of Code student Mike Smith, a set of early VirtualBox guest addition drivers are now available for the Haiku operating system. Information, source code, and a binary package can be found on the haiku-development mailing list. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:34:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News kallisti5 http://www.osnews.com/story/24945/A_Programmer_s_Introduction_to_the_Haiku_OS/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24945/A_Programmer_s_Introduction_to_the_Haiku_OS/ This article provides a brief overview of the Haiku operating system from a programmer's point of view, with sample code for an inter-application communication application. The Haiku API is simple and powerful and by the end of this article you will be able to use a variety of objects to write your own Haiku applications. Some C or C++ coding experience is useful. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:47:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature Andrew Hudson http://www.osnews.com/story/24864/Haiku_Alpha_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24864/Haiku_Alpha_3_Released/ Haiku Alpha 3 has been in development for more than 14 months. In that time more than 800 bugs have been identified and fixed, major sections have been updated, applications have been added and updated, and great progress has been made in supporting additional hardware. Here is a summary of updates, more details can be found here. Also inside, interviews with some core Haiku developers. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:19:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 116 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature Andrew Hudson http://www.osnews.com/story/24325/Port_Gallium3D_to_Haiku_Earn_2000_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24325/Port_Gallium3D_to_Haiku_Earn_2000_/ A few months ago, a bounty for porting Gallium3D to Haiku was submitted. As the target sum of $2000 has been reached, what's needed now is a developer interested in doing the actual coding work. (Gallium3D is a cross-platform video driver API, on which an increasing number of open-source Linux drivers are based.) Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:29:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) BeOS & Derivatives 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News sparklewind http://www.osnews.com/story/24198/Haiku_Could_Change_the_World/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24198/Haiku_Could_Change_the_World/ To understand what the BeOS and Haiku operating systems are, we first must remember that BeOS was developed with the multimedia user in mind. BeOS wanted to be what OS X has become today: an easy to use, attractive operating system. However, BeOS was a niche OS, destined for the media-hungry user. The percentage of audio and video applications available for Haiku is greater than the one in Linux, OS X or Windows, and the inner workings of the operating system were created in such a way, that the same multimedia passionate would find it easy to work with the user interface and files. Each application can interfere with other applications of its kind. A WAVE file selection can be dragged from a sound editor and onto the desktop, to create an audio file. Audio applications can interfere with each other via the Haiku Media Kit -- the corespondent of a Linux sound server. Applications like Cortex are a perfect example of how BeOS and Haiku deal with multimedia files: you can have more than one soundcard and use each one of those soundcards independently or separately. You can link one soundcard to the Audio Mixer, start a drum machine application and link that software to the Audio Mixer. If you want to output whatever you create with the audio application, all you have to do is drag the microphone and link it to the application's icon in Cortex. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:30:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 130 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature Razvan T. Coloja http://www.osnews.com/story/24162/Porting_Gutenprint-based_Printer_Drivers_to_Haiku/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24162/Porting_Gutenprint-based_Printer_Drivers_to_Haiku/ Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that can be used with UNIX and Linux print spooling systems, such as CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), lpr, LPRng, and others. Gutenprint currently supports over 700 printer models. Gutenprint was recently ported to Haiku, both increasing its printing capabilities, as well as extending its supported printer models. This article describes Gutenprint and the effort to port it to Haiku. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:05:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 43 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature Michael Pfeiffer http://www.osnews.com/story/24120/Haiku_R1_Features_Poll/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24120/Haiku_R1_Features_Poll/ The Haiku developers are preparing to finalise which features should be present in the first official release of Haiku. "This general interest poll, is to allow you - yes you! - the opportunity to effectively express your thoughts on which features should be present in Haiku R1 (Final). For R1, a balance must be attained between delaying the release and making Haiku R1 a well polished, impressive and feature rich release." Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:14:42 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News drcouzelis http://www.osnews.com/story/23974/Gutenprint_Ported_to_Haiku/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23974/Gutenprint_Ported_to_Haiku/ Gutenprint has been ported to Haiku. "Michael Pfeiffer (wait, what?) intends on ironing out the configuration options and fixing any bugs that users experience. Please test out Gutenprint on Haiku with your supported printer and report back here, or file a bug report if you encounter problems. Anyone with a colour cartridge?" Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:18:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News kvdman http://www.osnews.com/story/23764/Stack_Tile_Project_Reworked/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23764/Stack_Tile_Project_Reworked/ Clemens Zeidler, one of the spearheads for the Stack & Tile implementation on Haiku, has let the Haiku development mailing list know that a new and improved (and refactored) version of the feature has been committed to the Haiku source tree. This new version is no longer a hack into Haiku's app server itself, but is it's own decorator, in Haiku/Be parlance. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:34:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News Mike C http://www.osnews.com/story/23711/New_Haiku_Services_Kit_Takes_Shape/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23711/New_Haiku_Services_Kit_Takes_Shape/ This summer, too, the Haikuproject is part of the Google Summer of Code event. One of the more interesting projects is the Services Kit (draft document!) by Christophe "Shusui" Huriaux, which is an API to facilitate the creation of native web-enabled programs using standard web protocols and data exchange mechanisms. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 88 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News koki http://www.osnews.com/story/23699/Haiku_Project_Celebrates_9th_Birthday/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23699/Haiku_Project_Celebrates_9th_Birthday/ "Back in mid-2001, when the news that Be Inc. had sold its intellectual property to Palm hit the streets, what many had suspected and rumored for quite some time - that BeOS development was headed towards closure - finally became a reality. This news and the sad realization that it ensued hit hard the developers and users of BeOS; but many of them did not give up on the idea of letting the operating system of their dreams die, and instead embarked on the daunting task of recreating BeOS in an open source fashion. This is how OpenBeOS - now known as the Haiku Project -- was born." Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:02:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News koki http://www.osnews.com/story/23445/The_State_of_Applications_On_Haiku/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23445/The_State_of_Applications_On_Haiku/ Andrew Hudson, whose recent article on BFS over at ARSTechnica intrigued us, shares with us some thoughts on the state of apps on Haiku. It turns out there are several repositories with a vast array of applications ready-to-go for your new Haiku install. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:40:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 41 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature AndrewZ http://www.osnews.com/story/23402/The_BeOS_File_System_an_OS_Geek_Retrospective/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23402/The_BeOS_File_System_an_OS_Geek_Retrospective/ "In this short article, we'll take a look at the legendary BFS, starting with some filesystem basics and moving on to a discussion of the above features. Also included at the end of the article are two interviews: one with the person who developed BFS for Be, and another with the developer behind the open-source version of BFS." Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:52:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News jeanmarc