Haiku Archive
BeOS came with a relatively straightforward browser called NetPositive, or Net+ in shorthand. Especially by today's standards, it can hardly do anything more complicated than rendering basic HTML, so it isn't of much use. Luckily, Haiku has a successor now, born out of the HaikuLauncher conceptbrowser we
talked about earlier:
WebPositive.
This is news that makes me very, very happy. Stephan "stippi" Assmus has
written a lengthy blog post detailing the progress made on Haiku's WebKit port, and they're quite far along. Thanks to the help of several community members, the test browser, enticingly named (euh...) HaikuLauncher, is already
relatively stable, supports tabbed browsing, and a whole lot more.
Guest post by Andrew Hudson
2010-02-23
Haiku
What's that you say? You made a New Year's resolution but
haven't kept it? You vowed to sharpen your programming skills, write a cool
application, AND use cutting edge operating system technology? Look no further,
you have come to the right place. This article will get you started writing applications for
Haiku, the open source version of the advanced BeOS operating system.
And now we're ready to start picking the fruits of Qt being available on Haiku. We
reported on the completion of the Qt port to Haiku on January 1, 2010, and now we already have
KOffice running on the open source recreation of the BeOS. A modern office suite for Haiku!
As I drag myself from cup of coffee to cup of coffee, led by the soothing sounds of The Eagles, still recovering from last night (happy new year everyone!), it hit me that there is this thing I normally do, this website. Anyway,
we've got some good Haiku news on this first day of 2010.
Today there are many operating systems available. Every vendor or community round it tries to make it as good as possible. Having different goals, different legacy and different cultures, they succeed in it more or less. We (end users) end up with big selection of operating systems, but for us the operating systems are usually compromise of the features that we would like to have. So is there an operating system that would fit all the needs of the end user? Is is the BeOS clone Haiku?
Guest post by Alfonso Martinez
2009-10-20
Haiku
Since I encountered BeOS 5 Personal Edition, my experience with BeOS PE led me to purchase the BeOS 5 Professional Edition, which I used for some years. I am not ashamed to say that I love using this OS. After the demise of Be Corp., I still used BeOS as my "main OS" since it would do everything that I needed to do, except for gaming and academic works. I closely followed all the developments of the BeOS contenders after Be's fall... Until Zeta OS became the leading standard for a short time. I purchased every Zeta OS release that YellowTab produced. It is currently my favorite BeOS version today.
Guest post by Kevin Miller
2009-10-15
Haiku
Today marks an entire week of using Haiku as my primary operating system. This
is my first PC to get the most out of any BeOS related operating system to date.
My old 200MHz Toshiba ran R5 PE just fine but without any networking. My
eMachine ran Zeta just fine, but once again, there were networking issues (and
Zeta was pronounced dead around this time). In the age of the Internet, this
pretty much forced me away from BeOS and its decendants until now.
After eight years of hard work, the day has finally arrived. Today, September 14,
the Haiku project has released its very first alpha release. With the goal of recreating one of the most beloved operating systems in history, the BeOS, they took on no small task, but it seems as if everything is finally starting to come together. Let's talk about the history of the BeOS, where Haiku comes from, and what the Alpha is like.
The Haiku Project
is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. The purpose of this release is to make a stable development snapshot of Haiku available to a wider audience for more extensive testing and debugging.
Submitted by Alexander Bisogiannis
2009-09-01
Haiku
With the imminent release of the Haiku Alpha, Haiku-Files is now releasing ISO images for testing. Note that these are not the actual alpha release, but only daily builds of the branch which will eventually become the alpha!
"With the upcoming release of Haiku R1Alpha1, we are providing candidate imagefiles. They are X86 GCC2 Hybrid images and provided as Raw HD, VMware, and ISO images. As per the R1Alpha1 specifications, they are built from the releases/r1alpha1 branch code and utilize the alpha-* build profile."
I had been following the mailing list for the Haiku project the past week with growing interest. The topic of discussion? Why, the alpha release, of course! What needs to be done, who needs to prepare what, and most importantly, what schedule are they going to settle on? Well, after numerous insightful back-and-forths, the community has settled on a schedule.
The Haiku alpha release has always been a bit elusive. The project has been near the alpha release for a while now, but a number of difficult data-destructive bugs kept it at bay. After an informal coding sprint,
the alpha is now just a decision away.
It seems like only yesterday when Haiku was nothing more than a mere promise. Oh how the times have changed, as evidenced by yesterday's news:
Colin Guenther has ported the FreeBSD WiFi stack to Haiku, and managed to get a connection, browse the internet, and download a large file.
With Google Summer of Code underway for the Haiku project, the first results start coming in. The most exciting so far is
the work being done on a native multi-process WebKit browser, worked on by Ryan Leavengood and GSoC student Maxime Simon. They've got an interface, and they've got most of WebKit to build.
I don't think we've ever done this before, but we're going to promote a set of items
currently up for bids on eBay. Why, you ask? Well, it's a complete collection of rare BeOS items - from t-shirts and software all the way up to a BeBox and a very rare BeIA web tablet. This is a goldmine for BeOS fans.
Submitted by Karl
2009-05-26
Haiku
We've got some serious progress for Haiku for you. Firstly, the
Haiku WiFi stack compiled for the first time. Eventually, it will be a
native WiFi stack with FreeBSD driver compatibility, much like the ordinary Haiku network stack. Secondly,
progress has also been made in TV card support.
We all more or less hate Adobe's Flash technology for being an immense resource hog and a closed technology. To make matters worse, Flash is horribly overused in places where it shouldn't be used. Still, it's a technology that an operating system really must support in order to be declared usable by modern standards, since several popular websites rely on Flash to work.
Haiku is now on the list of operating systems with Flash support.
Back when it was becoming clear that the time of the BeOS had come and gone, enthusiasts immediately set up the OpenBeOS project, an attempt to recreate the Be operating system from scratch, using a MIT-like license. The project faced difficult odds, and numerous times progress seemed quite slow. Still, persistence pays off, and the first alpha release is drawing ever closer. We decided to take a look at where Haiku currently stands.
Before the BeOS ever made it to x86, it had already spent some time on PowerPC, but the die-hard fans will know that BeOS was actually written and designed for a very different, short-lived processor: the AT&T Hobbit. While a PowerPC BeBox is already quite rare, the Hobbit BeBox was never sold, and only existed in the form of a number of prototypes. Imagine our surprise when we found out that Cameron Mac Millan, former Be employee,
sold one of his two Hobbit BeBoxen on eBay a few days ago.
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