New weekly Haiku
Stephen B. - February 21st, 2006
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Archive for the ‘News’ Category Weekly Haiku, the Haiku Project’s roundup of recent development progress, has just posted their Feb. 21st issue. The update covers a wide range of topics including work on bootup debug output and the syslog daemon, advancements in PCI support, and the elimination of a few bugs related to graphics and memory accesses. Most significantly, a more recent PCI ID database has been added, which should bring improvements to PCI device identification, and there has also been recent work specific to PCI support on the PPC platform. An update was also posted on the 16th of February, as reported on over at Studio-33. In that update, we find details of some progress on the Haiku Installer application, as well as Marcus Overhagen’s recent work on Haiku’s PS2 busmanager. And of course, Rudolf Cornelissen has been working on more graphics related items than I can count. Head on over to Weekly Haiku for all the details!
It looks like the sever gremlins (or is that graemlins?) are having their way with BeOS news sites these days; BeGroovy has been offline for the last week or two and recently IsComputerOn has been displaying an error page. The admins of both sites have my sympathies and “get well soon” wishes, I know firsthand how maddening it can be to clean up after server problems. In the meantime, BeOSNews recommends IsComputerOnFire as a temporary substitute.
In addition to changing the format of the Haiku newsletter, the publishing rate appears to have been accelerated – Studio-33 has spotted a new single-article newsletter less than two weeks after the last one. The latest issue features an editorial by Michael Phipps titled “Top 20 Reasons Why I Think That Haiku is Still Relevant“; the list is a good combination of general BeOS strengths and unique advantages that Haiku offers. I particlarly liked his last point:
Aw well, shucks, we do try :)
Developer “tigerdog” continues to tweak HaikuFox, his NetPositive-esque theme for the Firefox browser. His latest release, posted on the 15th, includes several adjustments and additions; from the Version Details:
It’s definitely one of the nicest overall Firefox/Mozilla themes that I’ve used and it really helps make Firefox feel more like a native application in BeOS. Keep up the great work! Thanks to Mr. X for pointing out the new release.
I was a little slow-on-the draw noticing this one – mea culpa – but the Haiku Project recently published their latest newsletter after a bit of silence on that front. This edition marks a change in format for the Haiku Newsletter – in Michael Phipps’ words:
The changes work well, I think, and the news & views from Haiku developers are a great read as always.
An excellent article has been posted on Studio-33, 0033 has taken a recent Haiku build for a spin and written up his experiences. It’s a fascinating read, especially for those of us who are interested in Haiku but haven’t had a chance to play with it lately – it’s really quite amazing to see how far Haiku has come. There’s also a nice description of the steps necessary to install Haiku, and – for the voyeurs in the audience – plenty of screenshots.
YellowBites Software recently released version 2.0 of their vector graphics program WonderBrush. While I’ve followed the development of Refraction and Pixel32 with interest, I tend to use Adobe Illustrator much more frequently than Photoshop, so WonderBrush is personally more exciting to me. To get an idea of what the software is capable of, I attempted to do a few of the basic tasks I commonly perform in Illustrator. Read on for the pseudo-review, which also contains some hints on how to perform basic vector drawing operations in WonderBrush.
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