Haiku Archive

OpenBFS 1.0 Beta 6 Released

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-29 Haiku 43 Comments

The OpenBFS team is proud to announce that a new version of OpenBFS (Beta 6) is available for download. This new version features a fix for the dreaded "Vnode already exists with a different cookie" problem, a fix for live queries, a fix for searching on non-indexed attributes and lots of other small corrections and additions. BeOSJournal features a mini-interview with BGA. Update: Here are part 2 and part 3 of David Reid's editorials.

BeFree 0.1.0 Released

Submitted by Pier Luigi Fiorini 2003-05-17 Haiku 66 Comments

The first version of BeFree is released today. It is a GPL/LGPL graphical system that doesn't rely on X11 and is developed under FreeBSD 5.x (should also work on Linux). It is a BeOS 5 API clone (and not a Be OS clone) but the source compatibility will be probably broken in the future, the developer says. The release notes are here.

Node Monitoring in BeOS/OpenBeOS

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-16 Haiku 73 Comments

This document describes the feature of the BeOS kernel to monitor nodes. First, there is an explanation of what kind of functionality OpenBeOS have to reproduce (along with the higher level API), then the author (Axel Dörfler) presents the implementation in OpenBeOS.

Editorial at BeOSJournal: The BeOS Landscape

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-13 Haiku 16 Comments

"From my perspective the work being done by OpenBeOS is amazing and the concept was acceptable last year. Zeta has changed the landscape now and their approach, offering backwards compatibility but trying to move BeOS forward as Zeta is a good one and with luck they will succeed. My only question is whether they've gone far enough to warrant the interest they hope to attract." Read the editorial at BeOSJournal, written by David Reid.

The BeOS Toolkit for Win32

Submitted by David 2003-05-04 Haiku 28 Comments

A Belgian developer has ported parts of the OpenBeOS/BeOS toolkit and API to Windows. This is not the first time something like this is being done, but possibly it is the most advanced of the efforts. This is also similar to what the B.E.O.S. team does, trying to port the BeOS API to Linux. Update: Xentronix project leader seems to have stop developing BeOS apps and the Sequel OS, citting personal reasons.

BeGeistert 010 A Great Success; Interview With Frans Van Nispen

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Haiku 4 Comments

BeGeistert 010, the place for BeOS developers to meet up, is now over and BeOSJournal features a round up of the event, plus an interview with Sequel OS' Frans Van Nispen.

BlueEyedOS Demo/Test CD Now Available

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-18 Haiku 59 Comments

The final BlueEyedOS demo CD that we reported recently, is out and about and ready to get downloaded. The CD weighs 106 MB and it requires an XFree86 supported graphics card at 1024x768.

BlueEyedOS Bootable CD Out Soon

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-17 Haiku 49 Comments

OSNews had the privilege to play with the upcoming B.E.O.S. bootable CD recently. The test/demo CD is based on Knoppix but it runs a BeOS-like app_server and toolkit on top of XFree86 and it is carefully optimized for extra speed.

Group is Working on a BeOS ‘Sequel’

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-17 Haiku 120 Comments

A handfull of well known --to the BeOS community-- developers have come together to create a new OS, which starts where BeOS left off. Bear in mind that this OS, named Sequel, is not a BeOS clone, but a brand new OS which adds new things in the mix while retains the best features found on BeOS and other OSes. The OS is closed source and it is in early stages: it currently boots off a floppy and has a shell. Editor's note: I am part of the small team, since its first days, a few months ago. I designed part of the UI for this OS, but I am looking forward to get a working GUI system before I dive in and do some "real" work on the UI and usability. Stay tuned for more news about Sequel in the future. UPDATE: Please note that this is NOT "my" project. I merely help out the guys on the UI, and nothing more. UPDATE 2: March 2003: I have resigned of my role on Sequel.

New OpenBeOS Newsletter; SampleStudio to Go Open Source

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-06 Haiku 34 Comments

This is a little different OpenBeOS newsletter than normal. All three of the articles are opinion pieces and they are all on very related topics. "What about the OpenBeOS community?" "Yet Another Rallying Cry (maybe?)", "Press, PR, Progress and Purse". Additionally, Xentronix announced that they stopped work on their audio editing application, SampleStudio. They collect donations via Paypal, and after they reach the amount of $250 USD, they will open source the application (one of the top-25 apps ever written for BeOS). Check a screenshot here, taken from my BeOS installation.

Computer Programmers See Beauty in Bid to Revive BeOS

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-05 Haiku 44 Comments

WSJ has an article on OpenBeOS featuring Michael Phipps, Timothy Lord from Slashdot and Eric Raymond. "As far as I can see, OpenBeOS is more an admirable aesthetic experiment," says Timothy Lord. "As it is," he adds, "they're esoteric among esoterica."

Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1

Guest post by Stephen Reilly 2003-02-04 Haiku 57 Comments

I have been a big fan of BeOS since the Creative Labs OS Championship Team dumped it on me in 1999. At the time I was working technical support in Dublin and they had some guy looking after support for BeOS who really could not care less. He had never even installed it! I was deputy Linux champion and generally considered interested in OSes so they said "Hey, Stevo! Wanna be a champ? All you need to do is get this OS installed and play with it a bit." So, needless to say, I did and I was hooked.

Virtual Memory Design for OpenBeOS

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-23 Haiku 51 Comments

The Issue 34 of OpenBeOS' newsletter is out. Topics discussed is VM2, is a newly designed virtual memory system designed specifically for OpenBeOS. It is completely object oriented and designed for easier maintenance. Another topic is "Beatrice: Coordinates, Views and Messages" and the commentary "The Fate of Microsoft".

Initial Node Monitor Support for OpenBeOS

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-20 Haiku 107 Comments

Node monitoring is that most BeOS-esque of system services that allows applications to offload the task of watching files and directories for changes. It provides the basis of "live" queries and folders, etc. Axel Dörfler (author of OpenBFS) has checked in a first version document for describing the kernel implementation of node monitoring for OpenBeOS.

OpenBeOS Supports BeOS Executables

Adam Scheinberg 2003-01-13 Haiku 28 Comments

Bruno G. Albuquerque was the first to submit the big news on OpenBeOS. According to the OpenBeOS website, "With the latest round of changes made to the runtime linker, the startup code, and libroot.so, we are now finally able to load and run native BeOS applications. Of course, only simple one will work right now (since we only have (most of the) parts of libroot.so implemented), but I was able to run the same application under BeOS and OpenBeOS simultaneously. We can now make our first tests to prove binary and functional compatibility between both operating systems."

OpenBeOS Translation Kit Reaches Beta 1

Guest post by Kevin Adams 2003-01-05 Haiku 29 Comments

"The OpenBeOS Translation Kit BETA 1 is now available. It contains the Translation Kit library, BMP translator, StyledEdit files translator, TGA translator and the source and project files for all of the above. Also, the BMP and TGA translators should have more capabilities than the BMP and TGA translators that came with BeOS R5." You can download the beta at the OpenBeOS website.

BeOS Newsbits

Guest post by Kevin Adams 2003-01-04 Haiku 19 Comments

Here's some recent news from the BeOS world. The OpenBeOS MIDI Kit team has reached Milestone 1! They now have their own now have their own midi_server and libmidi2.so. Work on the BeOS-native video editor, PostMagic, is moving along well. A new screenshot was posted on the 1st. PostMagic version 1.0 is expected to be released around mid July. LeBuzz reports that Marcus Overhagen is writing a new Audio Card Driver API. The new API will get rid of some of the multi-source, multi-channel limitations inherent in older BeOS APIs.

The Comeback of a Classic OS

Submitted by George N 2002-12-27 Haiku 128 Comments

Nowadays, all you hear about is Windows, MacOS X, or GNU/Linux. However, what ever happened to the good old BeOS?

Whither the BeOS?

Adam Scheinberg 2002-12-23 Haiku 38 Comments

In an article for OSOpinion, Mike Berman has a thing or two to say about the past, present, and future of the BeOS. Although he makes some acute observations in an effort to generate discussion, he doesn't mention any of the developing BeOS replacements, Zeta, OpenBeOS, or BlueEyedOS. Read the article here.

Beunited.org Announces Talks With Gobe

Guest post by Kevin Adams 2002-12-19 Haiku 20 Comments

As previously reported, over $10,000 dollars has been pledged to open source Gobe Productive. Today Beunited.org has announced that conversations with Gobe have begun. Beunited.org thanked everyone for their donations and requested that the community be patient while the disscussions are going on.