New Haiku Newsletter
The folks at Haiku have put out another newsletter, with two more articles from the series on coding Replicants, and another editorial from the quotable MJP.
Haiku Archive
Bash Terminal runs under Haiku
The life of BeOS
AtomicPC posted a 7-page history of BeOS article and an interview with YellowTAB's Bernd Korz.
The Haiku newsletter has arrived
The latest Haiku newsletter has arrived, if it seems like it's been forever since the last Haiku newsletter, that's because it really has - this is the first newsletter to be put out since OpenBeOS officially became Haiku.
Niels Reedijk Continues Work On Haiku USB Stack
eXpert Zone reports: "Straight from haiku-announce: "I've been thinking a lot lately, and I decided that I'm going through with finishing the USB stack (even though I don't really like it). For my reasons of the delay, and what I'm doing about it, check my blog, I've just written a long post on the subject." A first milestone release is in the near future."
BeOS Dev. Edition 2.1.22 Released
eXpert Zone reports: "A few days ago, on 11th january, Fabien quietly released an updated version of the BeOS Developer's Edition. The new version, v2.1.22, features a whole set of updated drivers, applications and fixes to common BeOS problems. Screenshot, and the original homepage (in French)."
Mockup screenshots and new release
The Mockup project published screenshots of the recent released source code. The development of the GUI is following these mockups, using Qt 4.0 beta1 and key technologies like HAL and DBUS. The announcement, with instructions about how to compile source code, of the latest release is here.
Java 2D Progress on BeOS & Video Footage
Bryan Varner has created a video which shows Java2D working on BeOS. A mini-interview is also featured which details what has happened during the past few months, and where Java on BeOS is headed.
What was BeOS? A Quick Intro
BeOS was the brainchild of former Apple executive, Jean-Louis Gasse, who founded Be inc. in late 1990. Read the article at Macreate, a quick intro to the BeOS world.
Haiku Kernel Update News
Big update while moving over completely to the Haiku kernel:
Java on BeOS Progresses
Here is the first visual evidence that Java works on BeOS.
The Future of BeFree
Pierluigi Fiorini discusses the future of his BeFree project and decides to use Qt for his goals.
Haiku Kernel Hits Some Milestones
In an announcement today on the offical Haiku website, Axel Dörfler provides an update on the status of the Haiku kernel. Most notably it now has the ability to run Bash, boot to a graphical console from a hard drive on real hardware, and view files on other BeFS-formatted partitions.
Haiku: Input Server Up and Running
The History of Java on BeOS…
Well, until beunited tells me to shut up (probably won’t be long) I’m going to attempt to set the record straight and describe the current status of Java on BeOS. I’ve seen a ton of inaccurate information disseminating about the community and feel something should be said by someone who actually does know what’s going on. That seems to be the general state of Haiku / beunited at this point. Too many people don’t know anything and think they do, or like to speculate, and the people who really know things are too busy working on them to keep people overly informed.
Three Years of Haiku: The Long Road to Evolution
Haiku (OpenBeOS)'s third birthday was a few days ago. While some BeOS parts have been successfully re-implemented so far, these were mostly the 'trivial' parts: screensaver kit, printing kit etc. Read more for a mini-editorial.
Haiku Gets AGP Support; BeOS 5 Gets USB-Storage
Rudolf Cornelissen coded for Haiku/BeOS support for AGP cards (AGP cards were previously working on PCI-mode on BeOS) while Siarzhuk Zharski has released a module that allows USB storage devices to be used with BeOS 5.x (however some libraries from Dan0/Zeta are needed for the module to work).
Haiku-OS: A Call to the Community
While many of our team members are hard at work, coding and working on updating their team pages and adding all of the official site content, there are some other things that need to be done. We are going to need some Newbie Help Files and some "Developer Tutorials to be written in order to fill some large blank spots on our new site. I posted more information in our forums. If you would like to help out with either of these, please see either the Newbie Help Files thread or the Developer Tutorials thread."
WalterCon: An Experience Remembered
Jace from ZetaNews and BeUnited has written a review of the recent WalterCon about Haiku.
First Haiku (ex-OpenBeOS) Screenshots
Just posted at openbeos.org - a few screen shots of Haiku boot screen, fail safe mode etc. Elsewhere, BeOSJournal did some extensive reporting from the WalterCon.