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0033 - April 17th, 2007
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Leszeks (known form Teckview and LL Electronics, both in German) has created a new Video tutorial. Unlike the previous ones this one is in English and is about the usage of Haiku’s Icon-O-Matic.
Get the Icon-O-Matic Video tutorial here. Also about icons, on ICO frankps posts about Haiku’s wonderfull icons,
The recent announcement from Vasper about his WalterOS plans has invoked a lot of discussion on the Haiku mailinglist and OSNews. Following all the discussion Vasper posted an response on his blog in which he explains his views and feelings about distributing the Haiku system. Most importantly, Vasper writes that he will not release anything before Haiku reaches R1, also he states that he strongly feels that the Haiku team should create a set of rules for possible distributions. Also on the distro discussion, Petter wrote a very nice piece about his thoughs on the matter, personally I share most of his views. I too think that it would be more wise to create easy to install application packs that bundle software. For instance there could be a ‘Development pack’, ‘Internet Pack (email, chat, ftp, bittorent and such), a pack with graphics tools or a ‘Games Pack’. This way there could be one base system with the most basic applications, lots of drivers, localization and a good package installer. In the meantime, the Australian Haiku user group OzHug also proposed a distribution of Haiku. I can only hope that all this will benefit the Haiku base and will not create unnessecary duplications of the same thing.
Yet another interesting milestone has been reached by the Haiku project: the first publically-accessible webserver powered by the OS. According to HaikuNews, Urias McCullough has setup the server using the app RobinHood – the site itself is located at binarychicken.com:575. While BeOS itself was never ideally-suited to server-related tasks, it still a good indication of how far Haiku has come. And, as has been reported elsewhere over the weekend, the Haiku project has announced that JMicron has offered to support the development of Haiku drivers for their SATA controller hardware. The support will include the technical documentation necessary to create the drivers and hardware for testing purposes. Details have also been posted by OSNews, HaikuNews, and IsComputerOn.
Spotted on the BeZilla blog, tqh has written a handy guide for anyone interested in building Cairo. The guide, which has been posted to the BeBits wiki, covers the many steps and dependencies needed to build Cairo – which is itself necessary for building Firefox. There has also been a small update to the HaikuFox theme, bringing it to version 0.4.8. Users can either download the update from BeBits – or it’s already installed, you can simply use the automatic updates feature in Firefox.
In an item about recent Haiku progress, ICO reported that the Python scripting language is now working on Haiku thanks to developer “aldeck.” ICO also mentions that he also had success with Bethon, a set of bindings that allow BeOS GUI applications to be written in Python. The post includes links to several screenshots which show off Python/Bethon on Haiku: one, two, three. There was another interesting new addition to the Haiku project this week: DVB support; Marcus Overhagen has added his earlier work on R5 DVB support to the Haiku project. The software apparently already functioned properly under Haiku, so it was largely a matter of adding the DVB-related code to the Haiku source tree. Additional details can be found on HaikuNews and ICO.
Vasper, the BeOS Max hero, has announced that he will start working on ‘WalterOS’. Originally Vasper already wanted to form BeOS Max into a Haiku distribution after Max 3.1 but in the meantime there has also been a 4.0 release of Max. WalterOS has two main goals, the first is to create an Haiku system that can be installed and used by the more technically-challenged under us, the latter being that Vasper wants to help Haiku to gain users in the coming time. Although Vasper doesn’t give an expected timeframe for his project, the main Haiku devs have always said that they wanted to keep Haiku away from the avarage joe until the goals for R1 are mostly met. I suspect that Vasper will respect this, and will not do a full release until the base Haiku R1 goes live. Btw, the final name for Walter is not decided yet, find out how to propose another name here.
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