HaikuNews is returning to duty
Manette.be - April 3rd, 2008
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Archive for 2008
Good news, he did this because he would like to get back on the scene of Haiku related news sites. Welcome back Chris …and yes we missed you too! Read more at http://haikunews.org/.
As reported first on the mailing list, then almost on all Haiku-informant web sites, this important milestone towards the alpha release has been reached ! Greetings to all the hard workers behind this realization ! It means that as of today it is possible to compile Haiku inside itself without having to tweak/hack/modify anything. Bruno Albuquerque was able to compile our OS using a VMWare with 1 Gb of memory. After compilation he was able to run the generated image into VMware also. And all that began at commit rev 24720. At this time, 67% of the tickets today listed before getting to alpha 1 have been solved and closed. For more info, just have a look at the Milestone R1/alpha 1 status page.
People, As Koki stated on the mailing list, the the student application period for the Google Summer of Code 2008 has been extended. This will be of great use to us because it seems that, as of today, the number of applications for the Haiku program has not been that great (yet :-) this year. So, I ask again: if you think you can print the Haiku flyer for GSOC 2008 ant go stick it on a wall in computer schools or universities, this will be greatly appreciated ! Here are the updated flyers in PDF, PNG, ODT. This is an easy way to support Haiku so “Just do It(tm)” :-)
As read on the CVS commit mailing list and in the news section of HaikuWare, a brand new usb_disk driver has been added to the source code repository. Altough not yet added to the VMware image, that driver “should be able to support USB mass storage devices of the bulk-only class using transparent SCSI commands (i.e. most of the current external harddrives and flash media)”. There a still issues with hot-(un)plugging but in the end this piece of code should “allow to boot Haiku Great news !
Ah, the new name given to Zubuntu has now been officially unveiled: zeVenOS ! Some updates were recently made known:
It seems big companies begin to have an interested look at Haiku nowadays. As reported by ultrabill on BeOSfrance the famous Cyberlink company began porting PowerDVD to Haiku. The screenshot shown below is the alpha 1 version still under development.
It is probably the ability of the OS to easily manage video and sound that interested Cyberlink. For the moment there is no Blu-ray support because no translator is available for H264 and VC-1 codecs and because Java for Haiku is still under development too (will lead to missing functionalities on some movies). Let’s hope this will make more companies to have a closer look at Haiku.
A quick one: the Haiku Podcast has changed its skin and the result is very nice.
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Chris ‘cshaiku’ Simmons removed the HTTP redirection he placed on HaikuNews.org to Haiku-OS.org.
And no, this one is no 1st April joke :-)
