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Some news from DarkWyrm

Manette.be — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:59:12 +0000

On his personal blog DarkWyrm tells us more about progress he made on R2 documentation and hacking / Proof-Of-Concept-ing:

I’ve been hacking some code to put teeth to my ideas. So far things have worked as I expected them. Some are really exciting to play around with. Others need some more hacking.

Report from France’s event RMLL

Manette.be — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:54:58 +0000

Mmu_man posted an item on his Haiku’s blog about his experience at RMLL (9th worldwide meeting on open and free software which makes in french: 9ème rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre).

Read the blog entry on Haiku-os.org.

The Haiku Podcast 15th edition is out

Manette.be — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:46:45 +0000

Sikosis and Dennis d’Entremont recorded a new episode of the Haiku Podcast. Click here to listen to the thing.

Thanks to them both and Happy Birthday to Sikosis !

VoIP back to our platform ?

Manette.be — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:27:33 +0000

Oliver Ruiz Dorantes posted an interesting piece of information on his blog today.

Back in the time Oliver worked on a the creation of a VoIP application for yT’s Zeta as his final studies project. The application was named Whisper and was based on the BeNet source code.

Today, Oliver seems to have obtained from Bernd Korz the rights to publish his thesis documentation. He hopes it will ease the re-creation of such an application from BeNet source code.

Whisper was using a proprietary point-to-point protocol but what if it could be extended to other standards as well…

Screenshots here and there. More information at the Maps and legends of the urnenfeld.

Quick news

Manette.be — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:04:56 +0000

Rudolf Cornelissen is committing code again, this time directly into the Haiku repository. His work seems related to nVidia cards at the moment.
Haikuware 1st June Thank You Award is attributed to Michael mmlr Lotz. Congrats !
Haikuware launched two new bounties: one related to documentation, the other for bringing flash abilities to the Haiku.
since rev25750 Haiku successfully boots on the eeePC. Although Haiku runs for the moment in “reduced” graphic mode (640×480 stretched in 800×480) and lacks drivers for network WiFi and sound this is a great achievement ! (more info here, qua & ici)
DarkWyrm tells us he is working on a revision of the Haiku R2 Desktop document which will be posted as soon as finished.
zeVenOS beta 5 is out.
GSOC student Dustin Howett posted a status update about adding support for High Precision Event Timers (HPET) in Haiku.
Nice post on the mailing list: How to install Haiku to USB flash drive from Windows.
The Haiku Code Drive 2008 has raised more than $7500 ! This is a great encouragement received from the Community ! Haiku inc. added the missing money to reach the $10′000 mark allowing four more students to work on Haiku during the Summer holidays (with the 5 GSOC students it makes 9, one more than in 2008).

Firefox updates

Manette.be — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:38:55 +0000

Two information on the Firefox field:

If you feel like you are a beta tester, there is a pre release of Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.15pre for use with Haiku (ore R5 BONE).
Firefox as well as thunderbird uses what’s called the NetScape Portable Runtime (NSRP). This modules provides an OS independent API for Threads, Threads synchronization, I/O, Network addresses, Time, Memory management and Linking. There is a post on BeZilla covering the tentative to rewrite that library optimized for Haiku. Also discussed is the question to drop support for BeOS and Zeta.
Firefox will not be the only browser for Haiku. Indeed, François mmu_man Revol is porting NetSurf on to Haiku. The port is already working in Zeta as you can see on this screenshot.

Should Haiku go 64 bit?

Manette.be — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:53:13 +0000

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 ?