I am a BTech 4th year student at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
I will be working on implementing a FUSE based filesystem for BFS so that BFS partitions can be mounted natively in Linux and other POSIX operating systems.
I enjoy building systems like these where the final outcome is really interesting to watch and useful. I will be keeping the community updated regarding the progress in this blog. Happy coding all! Enjoy your summer!!
These two weeks I’ve been quite busy with other things, so the project didn’t move as much as I wanted. However, I managed to get the catalog engine to internationalize an app for the first time. It’s not a big application, just a very simple Hello World test program. And the lack of a tool for translating catalogs means I had to edit them by hand to get the translation done.
I will be working in a Catalog AddOn writing a catalog as full text for easier editing.
I got the kernel to boot “a bit” ;) but since u-boot does not pass the kernel arguments when loading with loadelf I had to fake some kernel arguments etc..
So it’s not realy a working system but serial out works ;) (input does not work yet :( ) and I can see some stuff on my screen..
The kernel runs on a emulated gumstix verdex since there is no emulator for the gumsitx overo we will use and the beagleboard emulator did not really work (no sd card support for example)
Hi, I’m Ankur Sethi. I’m a first year Information Technology student at Indraprastha University, New Delhi. I will be working on a full text indexing and search application for Haiku Code Drive 2009.
I use Mac OS X as my primary OS. Before I switched to the Mac, I had been an Ubuntu user for four solid years. I first read about Haiku on OSNews back in 2007 (my profile says my account is 1 year 36 weeks old), and I was hooked. What first caught my attention was the incredibly short boot time, and the low resource usage. When I read up more about what Haiku is like under the hood, this is what I thought: WANT (excuse the meme). I’m waiting for the day I can just pop a Haiku install disk into my PC and use Haiku as my primary OS.
Hello Haiku World, I’m Tom Fairfield and I’ve been chosen to work on a project for the Code Drive this summer. You’ll see me around IRC and elsewhere as fairfieldt or AntiRush. I’m a 4th year computer science major at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
I’ve been interested in operating system development for quite some time and Haiku is a great looking project in that regard.
The project I proposed and was chosen to complete is a Network Services Kit for Haiku.
The work on the Locale Kit as part of the Summer of Code has already started :)
This week we have been working on proper integration of my work in the Haiku tree. So you can now checkout Haiku from svn and get the Locale Kit as part of it.
Of course, some parts are still broken (or not yet written), but some of the tests seems to be already working.
Just thought we’d let you know that, Haiku-Files is now hosting GCC4 builds of Haiku in both RAW and VM image formats.
You can obtain these builds in the usual directories and we’ve updated the RSS feeds as well.
We’ve also fixed the VMX file that is distributed with the pre-alpha images to have the correct virtual hard disk name. Sorry for this oversight, I wasn’t aware of it, until I was playing around with VMware Fusion last night.
Greetings one and all!
I am Obaro Ogbo, one of the students selected for GSoC 2009. I also use the name nastee on irc and on Haiku Bug Tracker. I am a 3rd year student of Computer Science and Technology at Bells University of Technology Ota, Nigeria, and it appears I’m the first ever Nigerian GSoC student :-).
I began programming with Java, then learnt C before studying C++. I’ve done little PHP and Perl coding, however I’m learning Lisp presently. I participated in the Nigerian ACM/ICPC in 2007 and 2008 where my team came 3rd and 2nd respectively.
I live in Honolulu Hawaii, I enjoy Surfing, Swimming, Sun and Code. I am working on my BS in Computer Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and minoring in Geography. Next year will be my senior year. I have taken courses in concurrent programming as well as networking. Next year I will be taking an operating systems course. I also have some experience in machine architecture and optimization. My current side project is writing an application for the Geography Department, that is a complete suite of tools for stereogrammetry. My professional work has been work on an electronic medical health records system based on the United States Veterans Affairs VistA system. I have more recently worked for Nanopoint Imaging Inc. working on live cell imaging and microfluidics software.
Personal Profile
- Ma Jie
- Brief bio
My name is Ma Jie, And Jie is my given name. I'm a senior college student from China. Although not majored in Computer Science, I still love to do computer programming in my spare time. I have a National Computer Rank Examination certificate on computer network technology and got third prize of a national Java programming competition. The PoorMan server of Haiku is my first contribution to the open source world. I learned a lot from it, and I think it's time to contribute my knowledge back.
Project idea information
- Project title
Implementing ZeroConf support for Haiku with mDNSResponder- List of project goals
- porting mDNSResponder to Haiku
- a mDNSResponder configuration preflet, which can be integrated into the network preflet in the future
- a services browser and notifier, which may be integrated into the Deskbar
- making PoorMan server utilize the ZeroConf network
- writing test cases and running the tests
- Project description
There are two major implementations of zero configuration networking, Avahi and Apple's Bonjour. mDNSResponder is the underlying component of Bonjour. There are several reasons for me to choose mDNSResponder as the Haiku's ZeroConf engine. First, as Avahi is mainly designed for linux and BSDs, it uses GNU Autotools, while mDNSResponder uses handmade makefiles. Since Haiku's build system consists of a lot of Jamfiles, mDNSResponder will be easier to integrate into the source tree. Second, Avahi lacks porting directions. Finally, Haiku prefers Apache license that is more compatible with Haiku's MIT license to LGPL.There may be some difficulties when porting mDNSResponder to Haiku, because the cross platform support is abandoned and some gcc incompatible codes was added to the sources. I need to fix the broken codes during the porting procedure. mDNSResponder will run like other Haiku components. A server runs in the background and clients that want to use the ZeroConf services can communicate with the server by a library.
