http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 07:12:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19659/Senryu_and_the_Be_Man_in_Disguise/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19659/Senryu_and_the_Be_Man_in_Disguise/ Every now and then, the Haiku mailing lists explode with emails about something called the distribution guidelines. The Haiku guys set up a set of guidelines with regards to use of the Haiku trademarks and logos; the "Haiku" name may not be used in the distribution's name, official trademarks and logos must be excluded, but the Haiku icons and artwork may be used. In addition to these cosmetic and trademark issues, the guidelines explain what is needed in order to receive the official "Haiku compatible" logo. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:39:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 41 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News TheNerd http://www.osnews.com/story/19649/Haiku_at_LugRadio_Live_USA_2008/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19649/Haiku_at_LugRadio_Live_USA_2008/ As of Late, the Haiku project has been making some major steps forward, most notably the ability to 'self host', one of the most important milestones for the upcoming alpha release. In addition to development progress, Haiku is also making a name or itself in the Free software world in general, by attending conferences, for instance. Last weekend, Haiku was present at the LugRadio Live USA 2008 event, held in San Fransisco. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:30:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19556/Haiku_Officially_Self_Hosting/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19556/Haiku_Officially_Self_Hosting/ The Haiku project has reached a very important milestone. Bruno G. Albuquerque (bga) wrote the following note attached to a commit a few moments ago: "vnode_path_to_vnode() now returns B_NOT_A_DIRECTORY instead of B_NOT_ALLOWED as expected by POSIX programs. This allowed me to compile Haiku under itself without any hacks at all, so I guess this means that now we are officially self-hosting!" The official announcement can be found in the mailing list. In addition, there's a new Haiku alpha 1 status update. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:56:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19537/Haiku_Article_in_Software_Design_Magazine/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19537/Haiku_Article_in_Software_Design_Magazine/ As posted recently in the Haiku blogs, the April 2008 issue of the Japanese publication Software Design Magazine carries an article titled 'Writing Haiku: Begun in 2001, an open source replication of BeOS finally nears its alpha release' in its Pacific Connections series written by Bart Eisenberg. This is an eight pages long article that includes a full interview of Axel Dorfler, as well as comments from Bryan Varner (Haiku Java Port team lead) and Dane Scott, of TuneTracker fame. Go ahead and check out the English version of the article. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:29:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News koki http://www.osnews.com/story/19523/BeBook_Be_Newsletters_Available_Online/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19523/BeBook_Be_Newsletters_Available_Online/ I have no idea how I missed it (seriously) but read this: "It's been almost one year since we announced our conversations with ACCESS Co. Ltd. targeted at releasing legacy BeOS related documents, and today last week we were happy to inform the community that this project has finally arrived to a happy conclusion: the BeBook and all the Be Newsletters are now available online. As an emerging open source project, documentation for Haiku is still hard to come by; and while our Documentation Team works on creating Haiku-specific material, the BeBook and the Be Newsletters will provide valuable reference material for all developers, new and experienced alike." Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:29:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19512/Haiku_Alpha_1_Status_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19512/Haiku_Alpha_1_Status_Update/ "This is the first Haiku alpha 1 status update. The goal of this status update is to provide information on how the project is going. There has recently been an consensus that it was about time to start preparing a first alpha for a myriad of reasons. To me personally, the fact that it is about time to show off the enormous amount of work that has been put in the project the past number of years. Another good reason - in my opinion - is to get everyone behind one goal: preparing the code for a first release. So what's the goal of this status update? Well, with a large number of developers actually working on the different components of the operating system, it is easy to lose track of what is going on. You can consider this a news update." Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:22:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News jeanmarc http://www.osnews.com/story/19351/Haiku_at_SCaLE_6x:_Overall_Impressions/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19351/Haiku_at_SCaLE_6x:_Overall_Impressions/ Jorge G. Mare (Koki) has written down his thoughts on Haiku's presence at SCaLE 6x. "This past weekend Bruno G. Albuquerque, Joe Bushong and myself represented Haiku at the sixth Southern California Linux Expo conference, best known as SCaLE 6x, held on February 9 and 10 in the city of Los Angeles. This was the second year in a row that we organized a presence for Haiku at this event, and since we had so much fun last year, we were all looking forward to doing it again this time around." Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:27:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19329/First_Look:_Haiku_Poetically_Resurrects_BeOS/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19329/First_Look:_Haiku_Poetically_Resurrects_BeOS/ And more Haiku news; Ars took a short look at Haiku. "As an open source enthusiast and former BeOS zealot, I'm very excited to see Haiku reach this level of usability. I look forward to the day when it is a viable operating system for day-to-day use, and, when it achieves the requisite level of hardware compatibility, I fully intend to install it on my Eee PC, where Haiku's extreme responsiveness and fast boot time will be of significant value. Although Haiku and its technologies aren't quite as relevant today in the face of more modern and advanced operating systems, many of the traditional advantages of BeOS that are present in Haiku still have value today in some contexts." Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:25:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19325/Haiku_Self_Hosts_for_the_First_Time/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19325/Haiku_Self_Hosts_for_the_First_Time/ With many recent stability fixes and other improvements by Michael Lotz (mmlr) as well as others - he was able to finally nail down a couple last minor tweaks that allowed him to checkout the Haiku source from the SVN repository, compile a raw Haiku image, and test it in QEMU entirely from his Haiku install. This is the first time ever that Haiku has reportedly 'self-hosted', an unofficial important requirement for an alpha release. Please note that there are a few technicalities to be ironed out before the process can be easily reproduced by all. Update: Please note that Haiku won't be taking over the world just yet. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:18:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News umccullough http://www.osnews.com/story/19307/Haiku_Inc._Transition_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19307/Haiku_Inc._Transition_Update/ Jorge G. Mare (Kokito) has published an update on the status of Haiku, Inc. "It has been several months since we announced the departure of project founder Michael Phipps from Haiku and the transition period that ensued for Haiku Inc. This is an attempt to give the community a most probably long awaited update on where we stand today, what has been done so far and what remains to be done to bring the Haiku Inc. transition to a successful conclusion." Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:47:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19295/SCALE_Interviews_Members_of_the_Haiku_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19295/SCALE_Interviews_Members_of_the_Haiku_Project/ SCALE interviews Bruno G. Albuquerque (BGA) and Jorge Mare (Kokito) of the Haiku project. Haiku will be exhibiting and speaking at the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo. SCALE 6x will be held Feb 8 -10 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. The interview is a tad bit annoying to read due to the (lack of) formatting, but you'll get through it. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:38:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News Ilan Rabinovitch http://www.osnews.com/story/19271/Welcome_to_Kernel_Debugging_Land/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19271/Welcome_to_Kernel_Debugging_Land/ Well-known Haiku kernel hacker Ingo Weinhold has written an in-depth guide to using the Haiku kernel debugger. It describes the most important commands, introduces the recently added kernel tracing feature, and concludes with an example KDL session in which Ingo debugs an inter application deadlock. A recommended read, especially if you are a Haiku hacker or interested in becoming one. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:12:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News stippi http://www.osnews.com/story/19204/Haiku_Java_Port_Team_Gets_Seal_of_Approval_From_OpenJDK/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19204/Haiku_Java_Port_Team_Gets_Seal_of_Approval_From_OpenJDK/ The OpenJDK Porters Group approved by a unanimous vote the proposal submitted by the recently formed Haiku Java Team to port OpenJDK to Haiku. This makes Haiku the first OS platform to be sponsored by the Porters Group, and it means that the port is now officially part of the OpenJDK family of projects endorsed by Sun. The team already has a mailing list and a project home page; a mercurial repository is also on its way. Team lead Bryan Varner gives his latest update here on his blog. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:05:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) BeOS & Derivatives 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News koki http://www.osnews.com/story/19202/GoBE_Softwares_CEO_Clarifies/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19202/GoBE_Softwares_CEO_Clarifies/ Yesterday we reported on GoBE Productive Software (I knew that) returning to the market with a new version, backed by an Indian firm. In addition, the source article claimed GoBE Software was closing a deal on buying the BeOS operating system from what can only be Access. During the night (as in, CET) Bruce Hammond, CEO of GoBE Software, sent me an email with a few clarifications, and I have the permission to reprint that email below. Read more for the email. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:04:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/19195/GoBE_Productive_To_Buy_BeOS_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19195/GoBE_Productive_To_Buy_BeOS_/ Does anyone remember GoBE Productive? The BeOS boys and girls among us will certainly do. Well, with money from India, they're back. "Backed by new investors, a new team and deeper pockets, GoBe Productive is now back with a vengeance promising to shake up the Office space. Blue Lotus Software Solutions, the new company founded by a clutch of new investors and with equity participation by GoBe Corporation, has launched the product again from India." They will initially offer a Windows version, but a Mac and Linux version (using Java) are on the horizon. There is a more interesting bit at the end of the article, though: "Blue Lotus is already planning for its next foray and is negotiating to buy out the BEOS operating system from the promoters of BE Inc, which was the original owner of GoBe Productive, but were driven to bankruptcy as they were unable to compete with Microsoft." In fact: "We are in discussions to acquire the BEOS and hope to close the deal soon." Since I ate eggs this morning for breakfast, my jar of salt is still on the kitchen top, and most likely for the better: someone should call these guys and tell them that most likely, no one will answer the phone in Menlo Park. Instant update: More on the re-launch of GoBE Productive. The GoBE website sees no updates. Update II: My remark concerning phone answering in Menlo Park may be off the mark: welcome the corporate promoter, which, in this case, could refer to Access. Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:14:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) BeOS & Derivatives 48 http://www.osnews.com/topics/20 News