Mavin over BlueTooth
Manette.be - March 18th, 2008
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Archive for 2008 Here is an update to our recent news over the BlueTooth stack developed by Oliver for Haiku. On his blog there is a new post showing a mobile phone successfully discovering an Haiku OS over BlueTooth.
After having saw some movement on the CVS list about BlueTooth commits, that is now a great achievement which has been reached. Step by step Oliver brings us more closely to a usable BT stack under Haiku. Great work !
On page seven, sadly, and wrongly ;-), under a section named Dead ends and thoroughfares, there is a piece of information over BeOS and BeFS. Have a good read.
“We are very pleased to announce that, for the second straight year, Haiku has been accepted as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code” Last year edition was a great success (read here, here, here and here). We hope that, with the experience acquired in 2007, this millesime will be still more productive ! Recall that, for the participation to GSoC ’07, Haiku received the collaboration of height student during several months and the donation of 4000$.
If you want to know more about this new edition, there is a post on haiku-os.org you can read. You can also find there a list of ideas for GSoC ’08 as well as an How-To page for explaining to students the nuts and bolts. Don’t forget to spread the word and help to find Warriors Coders for the Haiku project :-)
In a new post on Oliver’s web site. Now he had a completed the framework to allow an app to use an API to talk to the BT Kit which in turns is able to talk the HW driver. As he tells us: “All a huge background that is not bringing us new spectacular things. But its the skeleton and the base of all the Haiku bluetooth subsystem. From now on, new bluetooth functionalities are some lines of code far (in HCI layer terms).”
Keep up the good work ! Kudos man !
Two websites came back to life recently The first one is one from the old BeOS days: The BeOS Tips Server.
There you can find a lot of Tips and Tricks useful for the day to day life with BeOS. A good thing, a new Haiku section has been introduced. This is the kind of site which really is in-line with the BeOS community spirit. Everybody interested in sharing or updating a Tip should contribute. The second one is the relaunch of Darwyrm’s blog:
 Ok, not the usual one but an additional one in fact. Good news for us this long time Haiku contributor is getting back to bloging activities :-). Here is what he says about his new blog: “I’ve been off the BeOS / Haiku radar for some months now. I still am not officially active in it anymore, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t keep thinking about Haiku or coming up with ideas that could make it better.” His first blog item explains a step in his adventure trying to work on designing the 3D-accelerated desktop experience for Haiku R2 by experimenting with a tweaked Xubuntu installation. Read more about it here.
Francesca from OsDrawer.net wrote to us a few days ago with a quick note about some server-related problems that had taken the site offline. It appears that everything is working now, as we received another EMail from Francesca shortly after:
It’s great to hear that the server problems have been resolved, and thanks to Francesca for keeping the community up-to-date on the site’s status.
While hunting around on BeBits recently, I came across an application I had completely forgotten about: Jonas Kirillia’s “Label,” a tracker add-on which lets you change the colour of Tracker icons (similar to the colour label support in older versions of Mac OS). The binary available on BeBits crashes with more recent builds of OpenTracker, however the source is also included in the zip file. After opening up the .proj file in BeIDE and hitting Ctrl-M (“make”), I had a freshly-compiled copy of the binary about 10 seconds later. And this time it worked without crashing – it appears that Label works so long as you’re also running the same version of libtracker.so that was present when it was compiled. So if you’ve been missing this app, or if you never had a chance to try it, grab the download on BeBits and follow the two steps at the beginning of the paragraph (note: on R5, you’ll need to install the Development Tools if they’re not already present). It seems to work perfectly so far and it’s incredibly handy for quickly adding some visual emphasis to one or more items in a Tracker view (E.g. I’ve been using it to give urgent BeMail messages a red colouring/tint).
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OSnews writer and BeOS friendly Thom Holwerda 
