http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:56:23 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22354/My_7_Days_Using_Haiku_Alpha_Release_1/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22354/My_7_Days_Using_Haiku_Alpha_Release_1/ Since I encountered BeOS 5 Personal Edition, my experience with BeOS PE led me to purchase the BeOS 5 Professional Edition, which I used for some years. I am not ashamed to say that I love using this OS. After the demise of Be Corp., I still used BeOS as my "main OS" since it would do everything that I needed to do, except for gaming and academic works. I closely followed all the developments of the BeOS contenders after Be's fall... Until Zeta OS became the leading standard for a short time. I purchased every Zeta OS release that YellowTab produced. It is currently my favorite BeOS version today. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:51:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 45 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature Alfonso Martinez http://www.osnews.com/story/22351/Seven_Days_in_Haiku/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22351/Seven_Days_in_Haiku/ Today marks an entire week of using Haiku as my primary operating system. This is my first PC to get the most out of any BeOS related operating system to date. My old 200MHz Toshiba ran R5 PE just fine but without any networking. My eMachine ran Zeta just fine, but once again, there were networking issues (and Zeta was pronounced dead around this time). In the age of the Internet, this pretty much forced me away from BeOS and its decendants until now. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:16:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) BeOS & Derivatives 56 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature Kevin Miller http://www.osnews.com/story/22156/In_the_Round_Haiku_Alpha_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22156/In_the_Round_Haiku_Alpha_Released/ After eight years of hard work, the day has finally arrived. Today, September 14, the Haiku project has released its very first alpha release. With the goal of recreating one of the most beloved operating systems in history, the BeOS, they took on no small task, but it seems as if everything is finally starting to come together. Let's talk about the history of the BeOS, where Haiku comes from, and what the Alpha is like. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:04:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 136 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/22159/Haiku_Project_Announces_Availability_of_Haiku_R1_Alpha_1/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22159/Haiku_Project_Announces_Availability_of_Haiku_R1_Alpha_1/ The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. The purpose of this release is to make a stable development snapshot of Haiku available to a wider audience for more extensive testing and debugging. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:05:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) BeOS & Derivatives 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News Coldfirex http://www.osnews.com/story/22093/Haiku-Files_Releasing_ISO_Images/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22093/Haiku-Files_Releasing_ISO_Images/ With the imminent release of the Haiku Alpha, Haiku-Files is now releasing ISO images for testing. Note that these are not the actual alpha release, but only daily builds of the branch which will eventually become the alpha! "With the upcoming release of Haiku R1Alpha1, we are providing candidate imagefiles. They are X86 GCC2 Hybrid images and provided as Raw HD, VMware, and ISO images. As per the R1Alpha1 specifications, they are built from the releases/r1alpha1 branch code and utilize the alpha-* build profile." Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:57:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News Alexander Bisogiannis http://www.osnews.com/story/22001/Haiku_Schedules_First_Alpha_Release_for_September_9/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22001/Haiku_Schedules_First_Alpha_Release_for_September_9/ I had been following the mailing list for the Haiku project the past week with growing interest. The topic of discussion? Why, the alpha release, of course! What needs to be done, who needs to prepare what, and most importantly, what schedule are they going to settle on? Well, after numerous insightful back-and-forths, the community has settled on a schedule. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:34:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 77 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News moochris http://www.osnews.com/story/21952/Haiku_Alpha_Just_a_Decision_Away/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21952/Haiku_Alpha_Just_a_Decision_Away/ The Haiku alpha release has always been a bit elusive. The project has been near the alpha release for a while now, but a number of difficult data-destructive bugs kept it at bay. After an informal coding sprint, the alpha is now just a decision away. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:35:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21822/Haiku_WiFi_Stack_Prototype_Connects_Surfs_Downloads/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21822/Haiku_WiFi_Stack_Prototype_Connects_Surfs_Downloads/ It seems like only yesterday when Haiku was nothing more than a mere promise. Oh how the times have changed, as evidenced by yesterday's news: Colin Guenther has ported the FreeBSD WiFi stack to Haiku, and managed to get a connection, browse the internet, and download a large file. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:44:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21706/Native_Haiku_Browser_Sees_Progress_Thanks_to_GSoC/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21706/Native_Haiku_Browser_Sees_Progress_Thanks_to_GSoC/ With Google Summer of Code underway for the Haiku project, the first results start coming in. The most exciting so far is the work being done on a native multi-process WebKit browser, worked on by Ryan Leavengood and GSoC student Maxime Simon. They've got an interface, and they've got most of WebKit to build. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:45:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21594/BeOS_Treasure_Chest_up_for_Bids_on_eBay/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21594/BeOS_Treasure_Chest_up_for_Bids_on_eBay/ I don't think we've ever done this before, but we're going to promote a set of items currently up for bids on eBay. Why, you ask? Well, it's a complete collection of rare BeOS items - from t-shirts and software all the way up to a BeBox and a very rare BeIA web tablet. This is a goldmine for BeOS fans. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:12:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News Kancept http://www.osnews.com/story/21562/Haiku_WiFi_Stack_TV_Card_Progress/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21562/Haiku_WiFi_Stack_TV_Card_Progress/ We've got some serious progress for Haiku for you. Firstly, the Haiku WiFi stack compiled for the first time. Eventually, it will be a native WiFi stack with FreeBSD driver compatibility, much like the ordinary Haiku network stack. Secondly, progress has also been made in TV card support. Tue, 26 May 2009 18:42:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News Karl http://www.osnews.com/story/21034/Haiku_Gets_Flash/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21034/Haiku_Gets_Flash/ We all more or less hate Adobe's Flash technology for being an immense resource hog and a closed technology. To make matters worse, Flash is horribly overused in places where it shouldn't be used. Still, it's a technology that an operating system really must support in order to be declared usable by modern standards, since several popular websites rely on Flash to work. Haiku is now on the list of operating systems with Flash support. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:54:03 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News jeanmarc http://www.osnews.com/story/20951/BeOS_Lives_Haiku_Impresses/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20951/BeOS_Lives_Haiku_Impresses/ Back when it was becoming clear that the time of the BeOS had come and gone, enthusiasts immediately set up the OpenBeOS project, an attempt to recreate the Be operating system from scratch, using a MIT-like license. The project faced difficult odds, and numerous times progress seemed quite slow. Still, persistence pays off, and the first alpha release is drawing ever closer. We decided to take a look at where Haiku currently stands. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:31:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 85 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/20869/Planets_Align_Rare_Hobbit_BeBox_Offered_and_Sold/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20869/Planets_Align_Rare_Hobbit_BeBox_Offered_and_Sold/ Before the BeOS ever made it to x86, it had already spent some time on PowerPC, but the die-hard fans will know that BeOS was actually written and designed for a very different, short-lived processor: the AT&T Hobbit. While a PowerPC BeBox is already quite rare, the Hobbit BeBox was never sold, and only existed in the form of a number of prototypes. Imagine our surprise when we found out that Cameron Mac Millan, former Be employee, sold one of his two Hobbit BeBoxen on eBay a few days ago. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:44:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20702/BeBits_Gets_New_Owner/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20702/BeBits_Gets_New_Owner/ A long time ago, when Windows was busy crashing into walls, when the Mac OS was running around naked in the woods looking for someone to protect its memory, and when Linux was frantically jumping up and down with a lollipop in its mouth, we were blessed with the BeOS. It was new, free of legacy nonsense, fast, and designed from the ground-up to make sense (which it didn't, but at least they tried). It could do all sorts of fancy stuff that the other operating systems could only dream of, but at the same time, trivial things like actually getting networking and the internet to work brought it to its knees. Sadly, it didn't make it because Windows and the Mac OS were bullying BeOS, and of course it didn't help that BeOS' parents didn't really know anything about the real world either. The community around BeOS, however, never really died out, and the central hub, BeBits, weathered all storms. It found a new owner today. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:10:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News jeanmarc