Sikosis and Dennis d’Entremont recorded a new episode of the Haiku Podcast. Click here to listen to the thing.
Thanks to them both and Happy Birthday to Sikosis !
Oliver Ruiz Dorantes posted an interesting piece of information on his blog today.
Back in the time Oliver worked on a the creation of a VoIP application for yT’s Zeta as his final studies project. The application was named Whisper and was based on the BeNet source code.
Today, Oliver seems to have obtained from Bernd Korz the rights to publish his thesis documentation. He hopes it will ease the re-creation of such an application from BeNet source code.
Whisper was using a proprietary point-to-point protocol but what if it could be extended to other standards as well…
Screenshots here and there. More information at the Maps and legends of the urnenfeld.
Two information on the Firefox field:
- If you feel like you are a beta tester, there is a pre release of Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.15pre for use with Haiku (ore R5 BONE).
- Firefox as well as thunderbird uses what’s called the NetScape Portable Runtime (NSRP). This modules provides an OS independent API for Threads, Threads synchronization, I/O, Network addresses, Time, Memory management and Linking. There is a post on BeZilla covering the tentative to rewrite that library optimized for Haiku. Also discussed is the question to drop support for BeOS and Zeta.
- Firefox will not be the only browser for Haiku. Indeed, François mmu_man Revol is porting NetSurf on to Haiku. The port is already working in Zeta as you can see on this screenshot.
One topic of my previous “news catchup” item was about the 64 bit question and the relation to the 4 Gbyte memory barrier Biffuz talked about.
SHED of Brutalbros.com, who I tought was named Blibbering Humdinger (sorry for the mistake), commented the article here to clarify his point in getting Haiku to follow the 64 bits path ASAP.
Also Biffuz posted a clarification article on his blog detailing the artihmetic and memory barrier technical problems related to 32 vs 64 bits choice. He concludes by giving his answer to the question: should Haiku go 64 bits ?
After my saga of weird-and-wonderful hardware problems earlier in the year, I finally reached the “resignation” stage – and I’ve been slowly rebuilding my BeOS environment from scratch. Most of my “must-have” applications are still available on BeBits (or BeShare) – but there are three that I haven’t been able to find. And unfortunately, using BeOS without them has illustrated how dependent I had become on all three.
Update: my BeOS install has been made whole again! My thanks to “Makita,” who posted a link in the comments to a zip file that contains FWorkspaces – thanks also to Finn, who sent in the version of UniversalScroller I was looking for. And a huge thanks to Oscar Lesta for sending in a “Dockbert care-package” with source and recent binaries. I’ll mirror the zip files and update the article with links shortly.
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Haiku Code Drive 2008: $7070.54 has been raised to date ! This is truly great support from our community. There still is a need for $500 in order to reach the “3 students” mark. Those would could afford a donation and who didn’t make it yet please, this is the moment: donate now !   Also the poll is running to choose between students projects. To vote you need to create an acccount on the Haiku-os website.
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François Revol Laurent “LoLL” JEAN-RIGAUD, is the proud father of a new little son: Mathias. Compliments (and sorry for my big inexcusable confusion :-) !
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Rudolf Cornelissen posted a kind of “keepalive” message on his blog telling us what he is / he will work on. The BeOS/Haiku developer Matt Madia decided to thank Rudolf for his contribution by sending him two PCI-E display adapters: a Geforce 7300LE (G72) and a Geforce 8500GS (G86).
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Haikuware’s June 1st Thank You Awards: Nominees are Michael “mmlr” Lotz – for having developped USB OHCI support and the mixed GCC2/4 environment, Gerald Zajac – for the S3 Trio, Virge and Savage graphic driver, François “mmu_man” Revol – for the USB Webcam Add-On and the PPC Port, Stefano “Jack Burton” Ceccherini – for his work on the Interface Kit and Terminal, and, last but not least :-), Tako “0033” Lansbergen – for the Haiku native IDE Niue. Please go cast your vote here.
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Haikuware discusses also new ideas for future bounties here. A documentation as well as hardware 3d acceleration bounties are considered;
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Haiku-os developer Stephan Aßmus posted an article entitled “Steady Progress towards Alpha 1“. A very interresting read.
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Sikosis et Dennis d’Entremont finished the mixing of the 14th edition of the popular Haiku Podcast.
- Remeber my post “Bifuzz and 4 GB memory barrier” ? Blibbering Humdinger posted his point of view on the subject in an article to be found here telling us that if using 64 bits there would be no such barrier. He is advocating the idea of Haiku going 64 bits ASAP. Ingo Weinhold’s advice is going in the opposite direction as you can read in the Haiku Gazette (in german, goolge traslation here).
A nice day to you all, take care !
