Haiku on Intel Macs
Stephen B. - July 7th, 2006
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Nearly a decade after Apple stopped providing Be with the information necessary to support Macintosh hardware, Karl vom Dorff (of HaikuBounties) has managed to get Haiku running on one of the new Intel-based Macs (as reported by IsComputerOn). The feat was accomplished using the virtualization software Parallels Desktop – it’s not perfect, networking and CD ROM access apparently don’t work yet, but it’s certainly an encouraging development.
The WeeklyHaiku site has seen a recent flurry of updates. Since there have been no less than three new entries since the last time I linked to WeeklyHaiku, and since there is now a handy summary of each post, I’ve decided to err on the side of laziness and simply quote the summaries:
I’m pretty slow in noticing, but long-time “underground” BeOS-related site Loved.com recently underwent a pretty significant redesign. The redesigned site features a news section, which includes an interesting tidbit about the porting/maintenance of nmap for BeOS being handed over to Kian Duffy (of HaikuNews fame). Additionally, Loved.com is probably the best source for a certain piece of “skeletal” software, which I’ll not mention by name (but if one still uses R5, there really isn’t much reason not to use it).
Well, the promised Nerdcore Hip-Hop CDs, Rhyme Torrents, are online at http://www.rhymetorrents.com/. There’s also a news site at http://www.nerdcorehiphop.org. Why does this matter to you, the BeOS user? Because it’s the first time BeOS has ever been mentioned in a rap song. Check out the posse track on disc 4, at the end. It’s 13 MCs, 16 minutes long, and I mention BeOS, the Amiga 600 and even the VIC-20. How geeky is that? You can also get Sandwich Boy aka High-C’s long lost track ‘Rick James’ Crack Pipe’, which clearly uses Marco’s Soundplayer ap, at http://www.rhymetorrents.com/highc Rhyme Torrents Volume Five is in the works as well. 80+ tracks of rapping nerds and geeks? How can this not fail to win hearts and minds the world over? Crips and bloods will now join hands, and start to argue over Linux distribtion preferences and the like. Or maybe I’m just manic from working on it for so long. Use the torrents, if you can, there are some big reviews hitting the web soon (cough Slashdot cough), and we’ll also be in Wired magazine (print edition) in August. But you heard it here first. Tell your geekiest friends! ; )
Many thanks to mikesum for sending in word of a new KHTML-based web browser for BeOS. Dubbed Nirvana, the project appears to be largely in the planning stages at the moment. Despite the simplicity of KHTML (relative to something like Gecko), it sounds as if they have quite a lot of work to do:
Anyone who reads this site regularly will probably expect me to make one of two bad jokes right about now: a “get KWQing” pun, or a joke about the old Mac error quack. I can’t really think of anything right now, however, so I’ll just take well-established literary cop-out of leaving it to the reader’s imagination.
Hot on the heels of a “semi-native” SeaMonkey build, a new build of Firefox has popped on on BeBits featuring “partial native-mode support”. While the native mode patches (courtesy of Sergei “fyysik” Dolgov) don’t magically turn Firefox into a true native BeOS app, they do help it behave much more like one – Firefox can now handle drag-n-dropped files, open links in EMail, act as the default app for HTML files, etc. A full description of the changes has been posted on BeZilla.org. Speaking of the BeZilla.org site, there have been some interesting recent developments there as well. Jorge “koki” Mare has outlined the recent / upcoming changes in a post on the BeZilla Blog. The site now sports a spiffy, more Mozilla.org-esque theme, and koki is working on a BeZilla.org blog for developers (to replace the current LiveJournal).
Rudolf Cornelissen, developer of the Haiku nVidia driver (and nVida 3d driver, and Haiku Matrox driver, and more other projects than I can count), has posted on his blog that he plans to take a hiatus from computers and BeOS-related development (first reported by HaikuNews and IsComputerOn). He still plans to finish up a few bits and pieces of existing projects, and perform regular maintenance on some of the video drivers he’s written – and the post also mentions that he would eventually like to to hand those projects over to other maintainers. There aren’t many folks who can claim to have put as much time and effort into BeOS-related development as Rudolf can, and I think that the BeOS community is unanimous in offering their thanks and wishing him the best of luck in re-discovering life away from the computer. BeOS-related news will seem much more boring without the weekly “new-cool-thing-from-Rudolf.”
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