For Google Code-In 2017, Jakub Pajdowski created a video on how to install Haiku in VirtualBox [6 MiB].
Virtual instances of operating systems are perfect for all kinds of testing purposes that need to be done in a safe and isolated environment. Installing Haiku in a virtual machine is a solution for people who do not want to install it on their physical computers, but wish to become familiar with it.
The Haiku Project has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code™ 2011!
Qualifying students can apply for a Haiku project (see the list of suggested projects below)
between March 28th and April 8th, 2011. For details about how to apply, please check out
Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea.
According to other mentor organizations, the most successful
Google Summer of Code projects are the ones proposed by the students
themselves. The following list represents our ideas and wishes
of our project. However, suggesting your own idea is encouraged!
This year, 4 of the 8 students completed their projects
This article was written when Ubuntu 10.10 was the latest version. Starting with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Haiku should be recognized out of the box. Just run sudo update-grub to add it to the GRUB menu.
When I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, not only did I wonder why it wouldn't recognize the BFS file systems, but also why Windows would automatically get added to the GRUB menu, but Haiku wouldn't.
This article was written when Ubuntu 10.10 was the latest version. Starting with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), BFS file systems should be recognized out of the box.
Late 2009 I made the switch from Windows to Ubuntu as my primary operating system. During the first weeks of using it, I began to wonder why it would recognize my old Windows file system on the hard disk but not the BFS file systems. The partitions were correctly recognized as BeOS BFS (0xEB) and I could mount them from the command-line with mount -t befs /dev/sda5 /media/Haiku, but they didn't show up in the Places menu or elsewhere in the system.
Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that can be used with UNIX and Linux print spooling systems, such as CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), lpr, LPRng, and others. Gutenprint currently supports over 700 printer models.
Gutenprint was recently ported to Haiku, both increasing its printing capabilities, as well as extending its supported printer models. This article describes Gutenprint and the effort to port it to Haiku.
By large, the Haiku Project is based on a
meritocracy -- the
notion of people gaining prestige and influence in the project by making
valuable contributions (whether it be code, documentation, or other recognized
services to the project). However, there are also elements of a representative
democracy, where the voting body will consider the thoughts of the larger user
base of Haiku when making decisions. But there is no doubt that at the end of
the day decisions are made by members of the meritocracy.
This general interest poll, is to allow you -- yes you! -- the opportunity
to effectively express your thoughts on which features should be present in
Haiku R1 (Final). For R1, a balance must be attained between delaying the
release and making Haiku R1 a well polished, impressive and feature rich release.
This poll will remain open until Sunday December 12, 2010 (approximately 19:00 UTC).
Afterwards, the results will be merged onto the
FutureHaiku/Features wiki
page on the
Haiku Project's Development Tracker.
A courtesy email will also be sent to the
[haiku-development] mailing list.
This general interest poll is now closed.. The results have been attached as images to
FutureHaiku/Features. A mailing list discussion will occur later in the week, as some active committers have yet to post their thoughts. Thank you all for participating!
Haiku, Inc. owns the 'Haiku'® name, HAIKU logo®, HAIKU Background Leaf™,
and HAIKU Leaf™ (registered) trademarks. As an open source project, the name and brand
that is associated with the Project is vital to the Project's reputation
and the sense of familiarity that end-users expect from the Software. Anyone
is able to freely use the code that comprises Haiku, however the trademarks
of Haiku cannot freely be used in the same liberal manner.
Haiku, Inc. was founded in New York State's Division of Corporations as a
Not-for-Profit Organization in July of 2003 by the founder, long time leader,
and visionary of the Haiku Project, Michael Phipps. It is recognized by the
IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity, specifically as a Type C corporation
pursuant to Section 201 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
Here are the IRS letters of recognition of exempt status :
initial,
final
Appendix B - Glossary
AGP
AGP is an extension on the older PCI bus. AGP cards act like a PCI card from software perspective, and were introduced to remove various problems that PCI graphics cards had. AGP have a data bus of 32bits just like the standard PCI bus, but the clockspeed can be much higher. The standard AGP bus speed is 66Mhz whereas PCI is 33Mhz, in addition, the AGP bus can operate at 2x, 4x and 8x mode. Where PCI has a theoretically maximum transfer rate of 133Mbyte/sec, AGP in 1x mode starts at 266 Mbyte/sec, rising to a fast 2 Gbyte/sec in 8x mode.
Furthermore AGP has direct access to the system memory, whereas the PCI bus is shared amonst all cards connected on it. The AGP port has its own dedicated controller as well.
The AGP port is typically connected via the Northbridge controller in contrast to the PCI bus being connected by the Southbridge controller of the motherboard. The Northbridge controller is directly connected to the CPI and memory system, therefore much faster than the Southbridge controller which has to use a chipset specific and relatively slow bus which can be a speed bottleneck.
