Haiku Archive

Haiku Gets New Tracker/Deskbar, More BeOS News

Thom Holwerda 2006-11-06 Haiku 38 Comments

Lots of Haiku and Zeta news this weekend. Firstly, the latest Haiku image is now making use of the new, improved Deskbar and Tracker with support for scalable vector graphics. Also Stephan Assmus' award winning icon set, Stippi, has been included. Secondly, better support for Japanese is now available on Zeta. Thirdly, there is now a driver for Intel Extreme chipsets for both Zeta and Haiku. Lastly, BeOSNews.com has a guide on using Aspell on BeOS.

Haiku Icon Set Contest Winner

Thom Holwerda 2006-11-01 Haiku 34 Comments

Many BeOS enthusiasts were eagerly awaiting the results from the contest Haiku held in order to determine its icon set. People unfamiliar with BeOS won't understand what the fuss is all about; well, BeOS's isometric icon set was one of the defining elements of the look of BeOS. I am happy to report that the icon set for Haiku is almost exactly identical to the svg version of the original BeOS icon set (used in Zeta, among others). On a slightly related note, there's news about Vista's icons as well.

Submitted by Valour 2006-10-31 Haiku 34 Comments

"The Haiku Project had its annual conference in Orlando this past weekend, and though I have little experience with BeOS or Haiku, I decided to attend and write about the conference because it's 20 minutes from my home. It's called WalterCon because 'Walter' was one of the proposed names for what was to become a free replacement for BeOS. Be, Inc. may be dead and gone, and the BeOS source code may have been sold and warehoused, but the spirit of Be lives on in Haiku and WalterCon. If only it had a little more developer support, you'd be hearing about the Haiku operating system a lot more often. Heck, you might even be using it."

Haiku Gets Wireless

Thom Holwerda 2006-10-19 Haiku 16 Comments

Michael Lotz, of Tracker.NewFS, SVG, Haiku USB, Qemu, and countless other cool-things-to-have fame has checked in Haiku's first wireless network driver, for the Intel Pro Wireless 2100. This chipset, which inhabits nearly all early Centrino-badged devices, is amongst the more common wireless hardware found in recent computers. It works on r5 as well.

NTFS Read, Write for BeOS

Submitted by Cian Duffy 2006-09-22 Haiku 18 Comments

3dEyes**, of NaviTracker and Romashka fame, who also did recent ports of SAMBA to BeOS, has released a highly experimental NTFS driver for BeOS. This driver both reads from and writes to NTFS file systems. Currently, it can read files, folders, and symlinks; write to files, create new directories, files and symlinks, deleting files/directories, renaming and moving files, editing of volume labels and free space detection.

USB Mass Storage, USB2 on R5

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-21 Haiku 4 Comments

While some BeOS users have enjoyed USB Mass Storage support on compatible (read: Dano USB stack-equipped) systems since the release of the USB Storage Module back in 2004, it today became possible to use this driver with an entirely legal USB stack on BeOS R5. In addition, USB 2.0 now works on R5, whereas Be's stacks have only ever supported USB 1.1. Michael Lotz's commit allows the driver to operate on R5, and on the SVN mailing list, he has stated that in testing, he has written to and read data from his Playstation Portable at USB2 speeds using this combination.

PXE Coming to Haiku

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-20 Haiku 6 Comments

"Marcus OVerhagen is now working on another Haiku project. This time, he's trying to getting PXE boot to work. What is PXE you ask? PXE means Preboot Execution Environment, and though an old technology, it's still quite used, especially to boot computers from a network (in my previous job we used it to reinstall a Windows image for exameple)."

Haiku Gets Addon Based OpenGL

Thom Holwerda 2006-09-10 Haiku 48 Comments

Jerome 'Korli' Duval has adapted Haiku's MESA-based OpenGL subsystem to an addon format, allowing renderers to be plugged in, with the first one being a MESA software renderer. This system will allow hardware 3D renderering drivers, such as Rudolf's one when adapted, to plug in without requiring specialised libGL.so's for every card. This extends the common BeOS concept of modularity even further, and is somewhat similar to how Be's OpenGL beta worked - each graphics card acquired a third, .3da driver, to add to the kernel and .accelerant drivers.

Submitted by Beta 2006-09-05 Haiku 38 Comments

The HaikuPodcast.com team has made a video entitled "The Introduction to Haiku", in high quality divx or low-quality m4v, to honour Haiku's 5th birthday. Of course you could always install and experience it first hand, but if that's not an option, this video may come in handy.

Submitted by jeanmarc 2006-09-03 Haiku 73 Comments

Time is up for the Haiku Icon Contest submissions, and it is now everybody's chance to make their voice heard. Please vote for the theme that is more usable, clean, recognizable and less tiring.

Submitted by sogabe 2006-08-26 Haiku 34 Comments

The controversial discussion about the important of communications at the Haiku project continues, and seems to be heating up. The project recently announced a new marcom team, and now the team lead (Koki) is coming on strong to the developers. He claims that the new Haiku website now in development "looks awful, is disorganized, and it has no focus whatsoever", and proposes to fix it by organizing it into marketing and development areas managed by each group (plus an open community area). Read on for a short summary written by OSNews reader sogabe.

Haiku Gets Marketing Team

Thom Holwerda 2006-08-22 Haiku 25 Comments

"We are creating a new team within Haiku - a Marketing/Communications (Marcom) team. Koki is leading it. For those who don't know him, Koki is a long time member of the BeOS community. He is fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish. He is also a professional in the realm of marketing with more than 10 years of experience. He will be responsible for website content, starting the Haiku User Groups, WalterCon, press inqueries and marketing materials."

Haiku Turns Five

Submitted by Kian Duffy 2006-08-18 Haiku 31 Comments

Haiku, the open-source BeOS replacement project, turns five years old today. Founded in August 2001 as OpenBeOS with the intention of replacing BeOS due to the lack of action by the then-ailing Be, Haiku has seen five years of change in the BeOS market but continues to progress.

Submitted by sogabe 2006-08-15 Haiku 19 Comments

A discussion on the Haiku mailing list about the recently announced icon contest has set off a somewhat controversial debate about communication in the project. The Haiku leadership seems to be of the idea that it is not yet a good time to the start PR machine, while the member of the community who initiated the discussion argues that, if done right, communication can be beneficial for the project at any point in time, and that it may actually help find the developers that the project so badly needs. Quite coincidentally, this article related to the topic of marketing open source projects.

Haiku LiveCD Script

Submitted by sardaukar siet 2006-08-11 Haiku 29 Comments

The Haiku news just keeps on coming lately. "HaikuLiveCDScript is a shell script to build a Haiku live CD. It downloads, decompresses, and generates a boot image and drops files in a folder ready to be burnt. Just unpack the script files and execute 'makelivecd', and wait a while."

Haiku’s USB Makes Progress; Pe 2.4 Released

Thom Holwerda 2006-08-08 Haiku 15 Comments

Some tidbits on Haiku/BeOS again, today: "Michael Lotz has posted to his blog about the status of USB on Haiku. Michael, who took over working on the USB stack from Niels Reedijk, has got it to the stage where he can now use his USB mouse under Haiku, albeit only temporarily before memory leaks take it down. He states the core stack is around 80% completed, with the UHCI driver around 75% of the way - lacking support only for isochronous transfers." Also, Pe 2.4 has been released to BeBits.

Submitted by jeanmarc 2006-08-08 Haiku 3 Comments

Michael Phipps announced that Waltercon 3 will be held in Orlando on October 28th and 29th. Among other news, Haiku has a webdesign contest as well as an icon set contest. The new website will be based on Drupal, the submission deadline is October 1st. The icon contest deadline is September 1st.

OpenTracker 5.3.0 Released

Thom Holwerda 2006-08-02 Haiku 15 Comments

After nearly three years without an official release, OpenTracker 5.3.0 has been released to BeBits. Currently only available for x86 (a PPC build is requested by Axel), OT 5.3 adds a basic calendar display to Deskbar, the ability to quit apps via Switcher, the ability to undo/redo Tracker actions, and many bug fixes, from stability to font sensitivity. Many of the latter issues were found initially on Haiku, where Tracker also runs.

Haiku’s Networking Status

Thom Holwerda 2006-07-21 Haiku 19 Comments

Haiku's Axel Dorfler has stated that Haiku's networking stack is more or less complete. "the basic networking infrastructure should be more or less complete now. Also, when booted, and an interface is up, the stack should also respond to ARP requests. However, that it is more or less complete doesn't necessarily mean it will work fine - when implementing the protocols, we'll definitely find some rough or even missing edges, I'm sure." In addition, a week ago, the latest Haiku newsletter was released.

Stable Cairo on BeOS; Haiku Gets NE2000 Driver

Thom Holwerda 2006-07-03 Haiku 6 Comments

A few days ago we reported on the release of Cairo 1.2.0-- as it turns out, this also happens to be the first stable Cairo release with support for BeOS. Haiku's app_server uses a different 2D graphics library, Anti-Grain Geometry. Also, Haiku now has a driver for NE2000 compatible network cards. This means developers can now test the networking stack with QEMU, which emulates an NE2000 compatible card.