Senryū and the distribution question
Manette.be - April 21st, 2008
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Archive for 2008 The news:As reported by Thom Holwerda of OSnews, there was recently some constructive chat on the mailing listabout how Haikuware’s Haiku distribution should conform to Haiku Distribution Guidelines. Karl vom Dorff made a pretty good work into achieving conformance and the result is SenryÅ«.
SenryÅ« is the new name of what was previously known as Haikuware Superpack. It is based on haiku pre-alpha code and contains applications and development tools (since haiku is “self-hosting” from several weeks now). Two flavors are available as VMware(tm) images the Personal Edition and the Developer Edition. If you’d like to know more aboutthe meaning of the name have a look here. More about SenryÅ«, downloads, etc. at Haikuware.com. The philosophical question:But again, there still is the long time existing question among the community of whether or not it is time to have this kind of distribution, and at this moment in time (i.e. based on pre-alpha quality software)… You’ll find on the mailing list (this thread) as well as in the OSnews article’s comment section source for reflection. What can be noticed today is that both Haikuware and Haiku-os.org, in their differences of opinions, act in a way they think will help Haiku. Koki (Haiku-os.org):
Karl vom Dorff (Haikuware.com):
My personal thinking is that as long as people are smart enough (yeah, maybe this is the problematic assumption Without starting a flame war, your advice is welcome in the comments.
Multi user in HaikuIt seems progress is being made in this direction. Indeed, as reported by HaikuNews, François “mmu_man” Revol submitted code in the repository for an application allowing multi-user login.
Here is a screenshot of the Zeta version François developped before. It seems, by looking at the CVS commits, he is now porting the code to Haiku. Read more at HaikuNews. Activity MonitorSpeaking of CVS, one can also spot one thing out of the many work done by Axel for the time being. We’ve seen number of commits for an application named Activity Monitor of which a screenshot is provided here below.
This application is intended to monitor your computer activity and resources utilization. This is a nice software addition too. PS: This picture is a crop of the entire one available at HaikuNews for showing the multi-user login application.
On his latest blog place, DarkWyrm tells us about his vision of Linux compared to, hum, BeOS / Haiku. He explains it wanted to express is opinion after reading one paragraph found in the LugRadio Report recently posted by Koki on the official Haiku web site. Points of comparisons: speed, cohesiveness, server vs desktop utilization, commercial viability, etc.
The well known Oliver and the soon-to-be known GSOC student Adrien “PulkoMandy” Destugues have posted interesting news recently on the evolution of the bluetooth stack. In the first post Adrien presents himself and explains his project proposal is writing a preference application for the bluetooth stack. Welcome aboard ! Second post, two days ago, tells us that the Haiku bluetooth stack is now able to discover not only one device but several devices at a time. The discovery process of multiple devices, which is more complicated than for a single device, was the goal of milestone 3.
Here above you can see a console output of the stack finely discovering three BT mobile phones. Interesting possibilities are to be envisaged reading the very last comment of Oliver in his post :-)
I just received an email from Tako Lansbergen, also known as 0033, to tell me that the 3rd version of Niue is out. But what is Niue you’ll ask ? It is an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for BeOS and Haiku (have a look here). It makes easy to develop applications and manage development projects on your system. Niue comes with a syntax styled code editor, but also, and that is a new feature of this third version, a brand new visual interface designer !
The author ask for your help testing and enhancing the software:
So, please, take a moment, download the file from BeBits, try the beast and report experience back to Tako either in the comments of this post or, best, in BeBits talkbacks. There is a detailed presentation of the software at this page.
Hi all, Today Koki posted a report of the recent LugRadio Live USA 2008 Haiku attended to. The experience is been summarized by Jorge G. Mare as this:
Today on Haiku News you can find the interview of Alexandru Roman, who is a student from Kitchener, Ontario, currently living in San Diego and applying for the Google Summer of Code 2008 project. Nice work Chris, read more here. ‘Nice day to you all !
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. After testing failing binaries, I filed bug reports, which led to bugs being uncovered in Haiku, which led to Haiku becoming more stable and Haiku’s vision of being binary compatible inch closer to its goal. This is what I hope for with these disk images.”
