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Manette.be - June 12th, 2008
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Two information on the Firefox field:
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. Read on for the details.
A nice day to you all, take care !
Earlier in the month, I posted about the announcement that Kevin Musick had donated the “BeServed†sourcecode to the Haiku project. OSNews and HaikuNews have since collaborated on an interview with Kevin, which has been posted on both sites. In the interview, Kevin elaborates on the reasons behind releasing the BeServed source – and offers some thoughts on the Haiku project.
I definitely recommend giving the interview a read – Kevin gives some interesting insights and is quite well-spoken (well-written?) in his responses.
Yesterday Jorge G. Mare presented the Haiku project named Haiku Code Drive 2008. Some time ago Haiku made known that 5 students were selected for this year’s Google Summer of Code. I remember having read that more students were willing to get involved in GSoC but were not selected. This is exactly the goal of this project: setting up something to allow those to join the CoSD: Crew of Summer Developers :-) So, they proposed the remaining students if they would go for their proposed project if they were given $2,500 stipend each. The agreed students as well as their proposed project were summarized on this page: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/haiku-code-drive-2008/applications ; The money is to be raised from the community, this means us !And, because us means you and me, I made my contribution some minutes ago. Your turn now :-) To be in sync with GSoC we only have until May 29 to contribute, so don’t wait, donate what you can now, support the effort ! Program details and a tentative calendar can be found at this page: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/haiku-code-drive-2008 From 22nd to 29th of May a poll will be held to decide to which student(s)/project(s) the raised money will go. How many students depends on you ! Donations are PayPal based so if European people out there are willing to donate but can’t afford to have a PayPal account, I propose to be used as a converter :-). Send an email to HaikuCallToArms08@manette.be for more details. Have a nice day !
Hey, every now and then you just feel like posting ;) As reported on Le Buzz back in February and picked up by DeBug today TuneTracker has acquired the rights and sources of SampleStudio.
SampleStudio is a commercial – and high quality – two way audio editor for the BeOS family and was previously developed by Xentronics, also known from the imaging application Refraction. TuneTracker systems plans to add recording ability and update the interface and performance. SampleStudio will then be re-released for sale. For further development TuneTracker/Dane Scott is looking for a BeOS developer with experience in the audio field, for contact info view the original post at Le Buzz. I truly admire Dane Scott from his ongoing trust in the Be community, remember that TuneTracker systems is one the last-longing and most active companies that produce software for our beloved platform!
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