Haiku to attend SCaLE 6x
0033 - November 13th, 2007
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Archive for 2007
So not only a booth like last year, but also Bruno G. as one of the few speakers at the event presenting Haiku to the masses! Haiku is proud to have obtained a speaker spot and they should be. SCaLE is a huge opensource venue and the right place to attract more users and foremost developers to Haiku. If you happen to be in the area around February 9 than make sure not to miss this, Haiku needs it’s fans at gatherings like these!
As you probably already have read @ Haiku-os.org, Ryan Leavengood is making huge progress on porting Webkit to Haiku. The core files are now compiling and although the port is not yet complete this is great news. Currently browsing is pretty much lacking from Haiku, Opera kind of works but that’s version 3.62 (the latest version of opera for the other platforms is 9.24), Firefox seems to works a little bit for some people, but definitely not for the average joe, Netpositive is simply to outdated. A complete Webkit port means that a native Webbrowser for Haiku suddenly comes within reach. Ryan started his work on the port back in July after a bounty was opened at Haikuware.com, the bounty has already raised over 870 dollars since. He plans to complete the targets set for the bounty next week. After that he will start to work on an application which will be able to use Webkit to render basic HTML. In the end the work should result in the development of an up to date webbrowser, with the help of other developers of course. The work on this port is massive so thumbs up for Ryan, the bounty is still open for donating! I’m sure that there are people reading this who are interested in helping with the work on webbrowsing for Haiku, in the end R1 is nowhere without a proper internet experience. btw, I known that I haven’t posted anything since a long time (May 9th to be precise) and I’m in shame for that but with the days getting shorter and more time being spend inside I might find more time for writing posts. I can’t promise though ;)
Oliver Ruiz Dorantes, also known as Urnenfeld, recently posted on his blog an update report on the libwalter project (we first posted about the project back in April). This project, started by both him and Darkwyrm, was to create a library to supply all the widgets required for creating an Office suite for the Haiku. Some classes of the library are starting to be used in real programs (like in Oliver’s OOffice project) so some bugs are being squashed and some points of improvement identified. There is a screenshot provided and Oliver invites you to check out the code from CVS, JAM it and play with it (R5, Haiku and Zeta are supported). This is the good time to help by providing him with feedback and comments. More detailed info at his place: http://urnenfeld.blogspot.com/
Stephan “stippi” Aßmus has posted on the Haiku website detailing some planned changes to the organization of the Haiku project (also posted by ICO). The goal of the changes is, to (block)quote from the post:
The reorganization will include the creation of two new groups within the Haiku Project’s existing structure: a “Developer Team” and a “Transition Steering Committee.” The post also contains a link to an article by Michael Phipps where he discusses his departure and offers some advice for Haiku’s future.
Recently a post made on the Haiku blog called “Why BFS needs chkbfs.” Written by Axel Dörfler, the article has some information on how BFS operates and the problem that the chkbfs tool fixes:
It’s an informative read, especially if you have an interest in filesystems in general or BFS in particular.
Brecht Machiels wrote back in August to let us know about a new site he’s started called “BePorts.” From Brecht’s EMail:
Since launching, an interesting application called “BePorter” has been released on the site. It’s a python script designed to help simplify the process of compiling ported applications on BeOS – which it does by automatically applying BeOS-specific patches and building the application. While many common UNIX command-line tools will compile “out-of-the-box” on BeOS, it does often require a bit of fiddling with ./configure options and changes to makefiles. This looks like a great way to make the process largely-painless.
Developer “tigerdog” has posted information about some plans for BeZilla development in the near future – in the form of a Firesign Theatre reference. As we posted earlier, new dependencies added to Firefox in the past year (Cairo, etc) have made it impossible to build the current development code under BeOS. So tigerdog has decided to revisit some earlier “bleeding-edge” patches written in the days when the Firefox trunk would still compile in BeOS – since many of those patches were never committed or accepted to the trunk. From the BeZilla blog:
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