Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.

Fundraising 2013

Goal: $35,000
  $10,476

WHAT'S NEW IN HAIKU DEVELOPMENT

The Haiku source is continually built for testing purposes. You can download and install these latest snapshots to check out the latest features and bugfixes.

Be aware though that they may be unstable. Additionally, Web+ and some other packages have to be installed separately.

If you're OK with that, you'll find further instructions at our Nightly image page.

OpenJDK port: final report

Blog post by hamish on Sun, 2012-08-26 23:43
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Since my three-quarter term report I've been working on adding audio input support to the jsound port and fixing various bugs in the JDK. Since the AWT/Java2d and jsound ports are now completed, my goals for the summer have been accomplished! The OpenJDK port is now in a fairly usable state, and community members have been using it to run some large scale Swing apps such as NetBeans and ThinkFree office.

The next thing I would like to do is merge my work in to the Haiku port repository at the OpenJDK project. From there I'd like to look into the possibility of acquiring access to the Java TCK, which will allow for comprehensive testing of the port. This will no doubt uncover many bugs and keep me busy for a while. Here are some other possible areas of expansion for the future:

NFSv4 client: final report

Blog post by Paweł Dziepak on Sun, 2012-08-26 18:46
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Since three quarter term I've added NFS-level support for named attributes what means that virtually all important NFS version 4 feature are now implemented, as I described them in my blog posts during the coding period. What still needs to be done is to improve support of Haiku's extended attributes and a lot of bugfixing. There is also a room for performance improvement and several possibilities to organize code in a better way.

Haiku Down Under 2012 Report

Blog post by Sikosis on Sun, 2012-08-26 06:41
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If anything could go wrong -- it did go wrong at the Fifth Annual Haiku Down Under Conference for Users and Developers, held at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia on 19th August, 2012. At least, that's how it initially played out.

GP South Building at The University of Queensland

Two contractors, each for two months!

News posted on Mon, 2012-08-20 21:26
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That's right -- Oliver Tappe and Ingo Weinhold have been accepted for individual contracts![1, 2] Each of them will be working for two 160 hour periods. That adds up to an additional 640 hours of dedicated HAIKU development time for a total cost of €8,000 EUR. The area of focus will be Haiku's package management. (See A brief summary of HAIKU's package management. for an explanation of how package management will work.)

Hopefully, these contracts will start in Dec. 2012. Given the delay between this announcement and the expected start date, there will be another reminder upon the actual start of the contracts. (Or if something unexpected comes up, an announcement for that.)

As both expect to start at the same time, this could be a tremendous productivity boost. Not only will they both have the opportunity to dedicate large blocks of time specifically for developing Haiku, but each of them will be working on the same project! Both of their minds would be in tune with their immediate tasks at hand and the larger picture. That would make bouncing ideas (and obstacles) off of each other that much more effective. It is specifically the nature of Haiku, Inc.'s contracts that fosters this type of cooperative development in a for-pay scenario. Instead of simply rewarding the completion of a product (without care for the implementation or the implications of future works), these contracts allow the developers to ensure their contribution is implemented with the future of the project in mind.

As there are over 2,000 open tickets for R1, there clearly are numerous areas of Haiku that are in need of improvement. However, so long as the contract proposals are for R1 items, it is not the practice of Haiku, Inc. to give preferential treatment to particular projects. Haiku, Inc. is always interested in receiving contract proposals.

If you appreciate these contracts and want to see additional contracts to accelerate the development of HAIKU R1, then spread the word and donate today!

NFSv4 client: three quarter term report

Blog post by Paweł Dziepak on Mon, 2012-08-06 22:09
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I've recently been working on caching in NFSv4 client. It was essential in order to allow the client to be comfortably used. I can gladly say that the traffic generated by NFS client has been greatly reduced, thanks to metadata, directory, lookup and file caching. I've also implemented support for open delegations which, though not always available, allow the client to perform virtually all file operations without immediate server participation.

BFS Partition Resizer: Three-quarter-term Report

Blog post by ahenriksson on Mon, 2012-08-06 20:31
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For this period, I have been working on getting resizing to work from within Haiku, rather than just in bfs_shell. In its current state, the code works, sometimes, if you don't stress it too much and write data to the partition while resizing. On the bright side, recovery from various errors is working well :). In terms of functionality, the only thing missing is the ability to grow full or almost full file system. The problem with this is that we need to grow the bitmap that tracks allocated blocks before we can actually make use of the new blocks. This can be overcome with a little slyness, but it's a bit of work, and adds some complexity.

I think it would be better to focus on getting the current code into a finished state. So my plan for the remaining time is to try to exterminate the remaining bugs, and polish the code. I'd also like to rebase my work into a neat patch set. The chances of finding time to add resize support to DriveSetup seem fairly slim at the moment. But since the task is independent of my other work, it might be something to start on if I run out of things to do in the last few days.

On a different note, I will be travelling away for two weeks at the end of the coding period (on the 18th), returning the September 2nd. Last time I went to an internet café my email account was hijacked, so I'll probably be accessing the internet sparingly. I hope this won't cause any trouble.

OpenJDK port: three quarter term report

Blog post by hamish on Sun, 2012-08-05 22:03
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Since midterm I have been working on the jsound port, which provides audio, MIDI input/output and the ability to control mixer volume and other parameters.

After getting my head around some of the media kit concepts the implementation has gone smoothly. I implemented audio output support first, as I guessed this would be the most used component. It works well. Then I implemented MIDI input and output support. This is untested so far because I don't have any MIDI hardware. In the end I will probably end up constructing some dummy MIDI endpoints in another app for rudimentary testing. Audio input support is awaiting the availability of the SoundConsumer class, which might be included as a private API in libmedia, as the file cannot be included in OpenJDK because of licensing restrictions. Once this is in place I'll get working on the audio input support.

After that I'll implement support for "ports", which gives Java apps the ability to configure parameters on the system audio mixer. I should be finished in time for the suggested pencils-down date, the 13th of August. I didn't have time to get a new build ready for this blog post, but it's not very difficult to build from source. Build instructions are here: http://pastebin.com/4FhDAnyg