haiku

Just a few days ago, Rene Gollent switched on the Haiku debugger as the default debugger. Starting from revision 45032, whenever an application crashes, you will now get the option to debug it in Haiku's debugger. This milestone is important because it marks Haiku's debugger as ready for general use. Before Haiku used the command line tool gdb, which is very good but also very user unfriendly if you are used to a descent GUI debugger.

Read more to see some screenshots.

Hello Haiku fans!

I am about to kick off a project that will benefit the Haiku community at large by addressing an area that I feel needs attention. Enter the Haiku video tutorial series. An easy to understand guide that will draw viewers into the beautiful Haiku operating system while presenting all the features and work instructions in a plain and concise manner. Not only will these tutorials be designed to teach, they will also drive home a message which will prove that Haiku is the only OS designed from the ground up for use on the desktop PC. Whether you're a grandma just getting into computers or a tech genius who loves to hack around and write code, Haiku is designed for everyone from all walks of life. Hopefully the videos will inspire and help others to pick the OS up and become an adopter.

For those of you wondering about licensing, all of the content I create will be placed under Creative Commons for the sake of clinging to the spirit of open source. I am currently in the outlining and preparation phases for this task and will commence filming and capturing soon thereafter. If anyone has any suggestions, comments or questions they would like to press forward, please don't hesitate to drop a line here or on the Haiku mailing list. Thank you all for this great opportunity to work for the Haiku project.

Cheers,

Matt Nawrocki
Haiku Enthusiast

As my first blog entry, I present a set of instructions for building the OpenJDK "hotspot" repository on Haiku. The product of this process will be a partial jre, including the libjvm.so libraries.

Oliver Ruiz Dorantes:

http://urnenfeld.blogspot.com/2008/11/5th6th-milestone-phase-1-reached.html

has recently committed:

http://cia.vc/stats/author/oruizdorantes

the last parts and completed phase 1 of Haikuware's bluetooth bounty:

http://www.haikuware.com/bounties/bluetooth-bounty

As such, he was transferred the bounty's pool of $1820.47 (he also received some RAM for his hardware donated by haikuware admin thenerd). The bounty fell a little short of the $1950 he requested, but all in all I think he'll be happy with that sum.

I'd like to thank all the bounty contributors that made this possible, as well as Oliver for the hard work he put in to give Haiku the code for a functional bluetooth base! Congrats all around.