Still poking around...

Forum thread started by fest3er on Tue, 2014-09-30 21:10

I *still* have my original BeBoxen. :) I haven't had time to closely follow Haiku-OS' development in recent years; been tied up with Smoothwall Express work and other projects. But I have been keeping an eye on it. I read the RSS feeds when they appear. And I occasionally use Haiku when I need stand-alone systems to connect through a test firewall (all running in KVMs on Debian Wheezy).

I just installed the latest nightly build (74390?) No complaints, only observations:

  • Had one WebPositive crash for no apparent reason. The URL I went to worked OK after that. The key bindings tend to differ from the de-facto standards, but someone (pulkomandy?) remarked on it recently.
  • Surprised to see it boot with virtio devices. But only the HD was recognized, not the NIC.
  • The host mouse tracks better with Haiku's cursor in vncviewer than it has in the past, but it's still a trifle annoying. There *gotta* be a way to synchronize the two, to lock Haiku's cursor to the host's cursor.

    Get me a good email program (with modern IMAPS), and qemu for VMs and I might be able to end my 12-13 year sojourn through Windows, SuSe and Debian after BeOS and get back to a fast, responsive desktop. Yeah, the Vishera 8350 mitigates the UI growth to a good degree, but still.

    Keep plugging away! It's getting there....

    (Posted with WebPositive)

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    Comments

    Re: Still poking around...

    by AndrewZ - 2014-09-30 22:49

    Here's your qemu:

    Re: Still poking around...

    by jessicah - 2014-10-01 11:14

    I have a work-in-progress synergy add-on for Haiku. Interestingly, it works perfectly well with VMs. I ran VirtualBox on my OS X host, and could move the mouse cursor from the OS X screen into the VM screen quite naturally.

    It's located at https://github.com/jessicah/haiku/tree/synergy for now. Can be built using jam '<input>synergy' from my Haiku branch.

    To enable, create the file ~/config/settings/synergy_settings and add the following lines: 

    enable true
server ip.address.of.server

    I use it all the time now with my native Haiku install, as I have problems with my USB mouse; there's still the odd hiccup, but for the most part, seems to be working well.

    Re: Still poking around...

    by syd - 2014-10-04 23:52

    So, fest3er, coming from Smoothwall Express, do you have any ideas about a firewall for Haiku? Since Haiku uses bash, and bash includes iptables, wouldn't it be a not-too-difficult task to either port an existing firewall or make a new one? Or do you know of other makeshift ways - maybe some bash commands - to add some protection to Haiku? I know the general view is that Haiku is not an attack target, but some organisations and individuals are targets no matter what systems they use.

    Re: Still poking around...

    by NoHaikuForMe - 2014-10-05 08:39
    syd wrote:

    So, fest3er, coming from Smoothwall Express, do you have any ideas about a firewall for Haiku? Since Haiku uses bash, and bash includes iptables, wouldn't it be a not-too-difficult task to either port an existing firewall or make a new one? Or do you know of other makeshift ways - maybe some bash commands - to add some protection to Haiku? I know the general view is that Haiku is not an attack target, but some organisations and individuals are targets no matter what systems they use.

    bash is a shell, the reason you can type 'iptables' into bash on a Linux-based system and have that do something is because, as a shell, bash runs installed executables from the PATH and iptables is the name of an executable on your PATH.

    The actual iptables firewall architecture is an old Linux kernel feature, the program 'iptables' just manages this feature. So it won't do you any good to port just the program to Haiku.

    Re: Still poking around...

    by apgreimann - 2014-10-24 19:34

    iptables is integrated with the technology inside the Linux kernel. I doubt it'd successfully work on Haiku.