Haiku Archive

Unfortunately only available in German language, Technoids is the only independent magazine reporting about BeOS(HAIKU) and ZETA constantly. In the seventh issue you will find an interview with Michael Phipps from HAIKU, a ZETA R1 preview, a review of yellowTABs ZETA PC and a lot more. You will Also find an in depth footage covering Apple's Garageband 2 and some other articles regarding other operating systems. So at last a lot of Be mixed with interesting Stuff from other worlds. The magazine (free PDF) can be found here.

The latest issue of the Haiku's newsletter has arrived, read it here.

According to HaikuNews, new open source nVidia 3D drivers are now ready for BeOS. Included are screenshots of Be's 1999 era Quake II port running unmodified and 3D accelerated.

The Haiku team have begun offering daily source snapshots.

Haikunews reports that Micheal Lotz of the Haiku Project has suceeded in getting their kernel land networking stack working on Haiku itself, along with the Links web browser. The one Links binary works on BeOS R5 and on Haiku, proving binary compatibility even further.

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.

AtomicPC posted a 7-page history of BeOS article and an interview with YellowTAB's Bernd Korz.

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.

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)."

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.

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.

Big update while moving over completely to the Haiku kernel:

Pierluigi Fiorini discusses the future of his BeFree project and decides to use Qt for his goals.

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.