The Long Haired Dude Talking Tech
If you are a Haiku OS enthusiasts AND an Austin Powers fan, this will make you smile. I just found the following Easter Egg in the naming of one of the threads of ‘media_addon_server’….
These folks are having too much fun….:-)
If you are a tinkerer of alternative OS’s, then you might know about Haiku OS. It is the Open Source recreation of the old BeOS, that was created by the now defunct, Be, Inc. It is the OS that was ‘almost’ the new Mac OS (Steve Jobs won that battle), but lost out to NeXTSTEP OS (the basis for todays Mac OSX).
Recently, in their development, the Haiku team has implemented a Package Management (PM) system (something that has always been sorely missing on BeOS and HaikuOS). That’s the good part. The bad part is that most BeOS/HaikuOS software that was previously packaged, is broken by the addition of the PM system.
There are a few software packages that I use with the Nightly HaikuOS builds, such as SoundPlay (for listening to Dark Matter Radio Network), OpenSound Driver (to make sound work in my VMWare HaikuOS VM) and Paladin (a development IDE, modeled after BeIDE, which itself was a port of MetroWorks CodeWarrior).
To help out Haiku OS enthusiasts, I have repackaged these software packages for use in the 4.1x+PM nightly builds. You can find these packages on this website or on HaikuWare. For the links, go to this page:
Enjoy! 🙂
If you are new to Haiku OS or have never heard of it. Check out this very long article by Ryan Leavengood of the Haiku OS Project.
It gives a good history lesson on it’s predecessor, BeOS and how Haiku OS (once known as OpenBeOS) came about. Good read! Thanks Ryan!
Click here to read the article.
Some exciting news for one of my favorite Operating Systems. Haiku, the Open Source OS that is inspired by the original BeOS and uses some Open Source pieces provided by Be, Inc. before they resolved as a company, are hiring a Software Developer on contract to update the WebKit port for Haiku and to do some work on the Haiku Native Web browser know as “WebPositive”.
The original BeOS native Web browser was known as “Net+” or NetPositive. So, they have given a nod to the past when creating their new browser.
“WebKit” is the Open Source web rendering engine that was started by Apple, branched from the KHTML project and subsequently used for their browser, known as Safari. “WebKit” is used in a number of other major browsers as well, such as the Google Chrome browser and many embedded devices have gone to using WebKit for it’s browsing core.
Click on the link below to read the full story.
Haiku, Inc., the non-profit group that has tasked itself with recreating the BeOS, just announced on Sunday, an Alpha 2 release of their R1 version of the Haiku OS.
The goal of R1 is to recreate the last official release of BeOS in Open Source (MIT License) form. BeOS is an operating system that competed with Windows, Mac and Linux on the desktop computer. The company that originally created it was Be, Inc. and was divested in 2001.
This is their second test release (Alpha). The released their first test version last September (2009).
To read the original press release and download the new test version, click the link below.
Webmail