BeDrivers.com Outage
Stephen B. - March 17th, 2007
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A recent post by DaaT over at IsComputeOn pointed out that the BeDrivers.com website has been missing lately. It appears that the server hosting the site was hacked, although the problem has been fixed and the site is being restored to its previous state – the BeOS Hardware Matrix and the BeDrivers forums are both back online now.
It’s a cliche, but the Haiku Project has proven the old adage of “third time’s the charm”; after being rejected for the previous two years, Haiku has been accepted for the upcoming Google Summer of Code 2007 (coverage available at OSNews, IsComputerOn, “>BeGroovy). A list of projects was posted a week or two back and now that Haiku has been accepted, instructions have been posted for any students who are interested in taking part. For those not familiar, the programme – known colloquially as the “GSoC” – is an annual Google-sponsored event that helps bring together open source projects and computer science/programming students looking for real-world experience. The results of past GSoCs have reportedly positive overall for those involved, with many students continuing to contribute to their chosen projects past the summer’s end. Congrats to the Haiku Team on being accepted this year!
A recent post by DaaT over at IsComputeOn pointed out that the BeDrivers.com website has been missing lately. It appears that the server hosting the site was hacked, although the problem has been fixed and the site is being restored to its previous state – the BeOS Hardware Matrix and the BeDrivers forums are both back online now.
A recent post by DaaT over at IsComputeOn pointed out that the BeDrivers.com website has been missing lately. It appears that the server hosting the site was hacked, although the problem has been fixed and the site is being restored to its previous state – the BeOS Hardware Matrix and the BeDrivers forums are both back online now.
Thanks to the hard work of Mikael “m_eiman” Eiman, Michael “slaad” Davidson, Andrea Anzani, and others, the IM Kit has gone from an interesting proof-of-concept to being one of the best multi-protocol IM clients available. While it is mature enough for day-to-day use at this point, it’s not very obvious how a non-developer can get their mitts on a recent build; there is a listing on BeBits, but a new build hasn’t been posted since Feb. 2006. Fortunately it’s possible to obtain and compile an up-to-date build of the im_kit with a little work. Read on for the details. Correction: Apologies to the “Mikes” (Mikael Eiman and Michael Davidson) for mixing up/combining their names as “Michael Eiman.” I was not attempting to create some sort of hybrid, two-headed programming monster – I swear.
Thanks to the hard work of Mikael “m_eiman” Eiman, Michael “slaad” Davidson, Andrea Anzani, and others, the IM Kit has gone from an interesting proof-of-concept to being one of the best multi-protocol IM clients available. While it is mature enough for day-to-day use at this point, it’s not very obvious how a non-developer can get their mitts on a recent build; there is a listing on BeBits, but a new build hasn’t been posted since Feb. 2006. Fortunately it’s possible to obtain and compile an up-to-date build of the im_kit with a little work. Read on for the details. Correction: Apologies to the “Mikes” (Mikael Eiman and Michael Davidson) for mixing up/combining their names as “Michael Eiman.” I was not attempting to create some sort of hybrid, two-headed programming monster – I swear.
There has been a rather odd development today: a group of Polish developers, responsible for the Linux distribution Pingwinek Linux, have released a distribution of Haiku called GNU/Haiku (download links here). The story has been reported on widely already, posts about the new distro can be found on OSNews, HaikuNews, IsComputerOn, and Studio-33. The Pingwinek website contains a small collection of screenshots that show off their Haiku distribution. Based on the screenshots and the description posted on their website, it appears to be a re-packaging of a recent Haiku build, with the addition of several games and command line tools ported/re-compiled from Linux. While the “GNU/Haiku” name does seem a bit odd, it appears that the “GNU” prefix only refers to the added software – it doesn’t look as if the Pingwinek group are releasing a Haiku distro relicensed under the GPL.
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