HaikuNews Examines Haiku Bugzilla
Stephen B. - July 15th, 2006
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Over on HaikuNews Kian Duffy has posted a fascinating short piece called “The Telling Secrets of Haiku’s Bugzilla“. Among the 700 (or so) entries, Kian dug up some great indications of Haiku’s current development status – including a cool screenshot of Haiku with an uptime of 52 hours-plus. Kian also mentions that, in addition to giving a good overview of what’s working and what’s not, the Haiku Bugzilla is the best place to submit any bugs you encounter while testing Haiku. A somewhat obvious point, but one that’s worth repeating as the Bugzilla is not as widely-known as some of the other Haiku Project resources.
Magnussoft, the new global distributors for ZETA (and apparently now the developers of it as well, although solid details are scarce) have announced a new Beta testing program. A notice was posted on July 4th to announce that applications for the Beta program are now closed – congratulations to everyone who was accepted. In other Magnussoft-related news, they also announced that the release of ZETA 1.21 will be pushed back to the end of July (it was originally scheduled for a June 20th release). The post on ZETA-OS.com states that the delay is being made in order to give ZETA developers more time to work on drivers and do additional “polishing.”
Although the Haiku Podcast has only been around for a few short months, it has already become a familiar fixture in the BeOS / Haiku community. The third episode is now online for your listening pleasure and this time around Siksosis presents us with two interviews, in addition to the regular features. In this episode, Siksosis chats with Charlie Clark of BeGeistert and Karl vom Dorff from Haiku Bounties, and features the EMail client Beam as his BeBits app-of-the-month. Kudos to Sikosis for all the great work, the Haiku Podcast got off to a great start and has only improved since then. The interviews have been especially enjoyable, it’s been great to be able to “put a voice” to long-time community members.
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! ; )
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