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Manette.be - July 28th, 2008
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Archive for 2008
Oliver made a post on his blog to tell us the bluetooth stack is now able to pair with devices authenticating with PIN code as needed.
Very nice achievement, keep up the good work !
Remember, in the beginning of the month of July DarkWyrm stated he was having thoughts about how Deskbar and Tracker could be enhanced for R2. While this is no official (read Haiku Inc. endorsed) work, it is certainly valuable to the community as a proof of concept and as an future looking attitude which seems to be part of the Haiku spirit. A first screenshot (sort of app. launcher) appeared next in this post showing a working R2-related mini code projects (Proof Of Concepts snippets if you want). Another teasing shot was inserted in his “Ouch” post: the MakeBundle app.
Then DarkWyrm posted a clarification about the goal and the “officialness” of his brainstorm work. You can read the whole post here but the essence can be summarized by: “Too many people have suggested bizarre, impractical, and/or undesirable ideas on the Glass Elevator list” …” These screenshots (and the to-be-released-later programs) are an attempt to show that my vision for R2 is good, sensible, practical, and worth putting into place” Saturday he posted some more “More Juicy Tidbits” to give more detailed explanations and to tease us (again…) about a new-to-come mini project.
I had a chance to give it a try on R5 and it seems to work quite nicely – the screenshot above shows NetSurf displaying BeOSNews.com (and doing a pretty decent job). In the comments over on ICO, François mentioned that libz.so must be installed – it isn’t included in R5 by default, but it is included in the LibPak available on BeBits. If you take NetSurf for a spin, keep in mind that the “netsurf” folder must be located in /boot/apps/ (otherwise you’ll see an error when trying to run the binary).
A little while ago, I posted a Along with the request, I had also promised to mirror the downloads on BeOSNews in the hopes of saving others from the frustration of wading through dead links on BeBits. I finally got around to fulfilling that promise and I’ve added I’ve added “additional location” links to the appropriate BeBits pages: Dockbert ………… direct download link Thanks again to everyone who responded to the original post!
On his personal blog DarkWyrm tells us more about progress he made on R2 documentation and hacking / Proof-Of-Concept-ing:
Read more about his work on R2 here.
Mmu_man posted an item on his Haiku’s blog about his experience at RMLL (9th worldwide meeting on open and free software which makes in french: 9ème rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre). Read the blog entry on Haiku-os.org.
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