News Index

Documentation Team Started and Seeks Help

News posted by nielx on Wed, 2007-04-18 17:30
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With the release of the BeBook under the Creative Commons license, ACCESS Co. Ltd enables us to provide the potential developers of today with all the documentation of the BeOS API. But to ensure that API documentation will be available and up to date for the future generations of developers, the Haiku project announces a structured effort on the writing of the Haiku API documentation from scratch. The documentation team is small and young and any help would be very much appreciated.

If you are interested in helping out with writing, verifying and/or correcting API documentation, or you're interested in following the documentation process, please have a look at the team page. A snapshot of the currently written documentation is available at the build factory, and will kept up to date daily from the latest sources.

JMicron Supports SATA Implementation in Haiku (updated)

News posted by axeld on Sat, 2007-04-14 09:25
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Note: JMicron monitors user comments and encourages all Haiku supporters to post their comments at the Haiku Website, instead of mailing them directly. Thanks for your support!

We are pleased to announce that JMicron Technology Corporation has offered to give our project support in the implementation of SATA technology for Haiku. JMicron has pledged to support the development effort by providing the required technical documentation as well as hardware for testing. Haiku developer Marcus Overhagen will be working closely with JMicron with the eventual goal of achieving full support for JMicron's SATA products in Haiku in the future. JMicron is a pioneer for SATA and PCI Express products. Haiku is an emerging multimedia desktop operating system. This cooperation will provide a solid foundation for multimedia applications.

Update: Apparently, after the above announcement, JMicron got a number of mails expressing the appreciation of their support. They kindly asked us to add the following statement: "It is so proud for JMicron to work with Haiku. No matter to others, JMicron would like to say thanks to all of you. For new coming chips, JMicron would like to get your great help as same as before.".
On behalf of the Haiku team, I want to thank JMicron for their offer, and I am looking forward to work with them.

It's Official: Eight Students to Code for Haiku at GSoC 2007

News posted by koki on Thu, 2007-04-12 02:10
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Google has given their final word, and we are now pleased to announce that Haiku has been assigned 8 student slots for the Google Summer of Code 2007, which is one more than we had initially hoped for. Here is a list of the accepted applications, also as a way of introduction of the eight students that were selected from a total of 42 applications.

Update: Added usernames and linked to user's page.

Network stack revamp: IPv6, ICMP, multicast, etc.

Create a thread scheduler with CPU affinity

USB isochronous streams

FireWire stack for Haiku

Network Preferences Application

Package (.pkg) installer for Haiku

Implement ICMP error handling and propagation

Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches

In the next weeks the students will have time to get in touch with the community and prepare their work. On May 28th, the official coding period starts.

Please, give a warm welcome to all the accepted students, as well as a big thank you to both the Haiku mentors who have committed their time to the success of Haiku's debut in the Google Summer of Code and, needless to say, to Google itself for making this happen in the first place.

Google Summer of Code 2007: Update

News posted by wkornewald on Sun, 2007-04-08 11:00
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Playing an MP3 over NFS on HaikuPlaying an MP3 over NFS on Haiku

Yesterday, Google has assigned 7 preliminary student slots to us, which is as many as we wanted to have. Haiku would like thank all the students that have applied for projects and those that have assisted in this step of the program. Overall, we received 42 student applications. In the next days we will finalize the list of accepted student projects for Haiku.

At 0:00 UTC on April 12, 2007, the list of accepted student applications will be posted on code.google.com. As some of you might have noticed, Hugo Santos, one of our student candidates, couldn't wait anymore and already started improving our network stack. Recently, he fixed a bug in our UDP protocol module which prevented the NFS module from functioning reliably. In the screenshot you can see Haiku playing an MP3 file over NFS.

Haiku Lecture at FISL 8.0 FOSS Conference in Brazil

News posted by koki on Sat, 2007-04-07 21:59
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Haiku developer and Google engineer Bruno G. Albuquerque is scheduled to give a lecture about Haiku at the upcoming 8th International Free Software Forum (FISL 8.0), to be held in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, on April 12th, 13th and 14th. This lecture, one of the six presentations given by Google at this event, will cover general aspects of Haiku and will include a hands-on demonstration as well.

  • Title: Introducing Haiku
  • Presenter: Bruno G. Albuquerque, Google
  • Time: April 13 (Friday), 3:00PM - 4:00PM
  • Place: Dijkstra conference room

FISL is a major open software event in both the Brazilian and International FOSS event's calendar. This, the 8th edition of FISL, is expected to attract a big crowd, making it a great venue to introduce Haiku to many open source enthusiasts. Additionally, if you happen to be in the neighbourhood, this would also be a great chance to meet with one of the lead Haiku developers in person and chat with him about the current status and future of the project.

FISL 8.0 Overview

ACCESS Co. Releases BeBook and Be Newsletters

News posted by koki on Tue, 2007-04-03 17:00
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We are very pleased to announce that ACCESS Co. Ltd., the current holders of the BeOS intellectual property, has responded positively to our request for permission to reproduce the BeBook and all the Be Newsletters. As a result, we will be able to release these BeOS legacy documents under a Creative Commons license.

"ACCESS is very pleased to be able to support the Haiku project by making these documents more widely available to interested developers," comments David "Lefty" Schlesinger, Director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS Co. Ltd. "We have a long-standing commitment to be good open source community citizens and making these documents available is an expression of that commitment," concludes David.

Since Haiku is an emerging OS platform, reference technical documentation is still hard to come by. The availability of these legacy BeOS documents adds to the useful bibliography that prospective Haiku developers can consult to familiarize themselves with development for our platform. Both the BeBook and the Be Newsletters will be made available at haiku-os.org, and will be directly searchable from our website.

We take the opportunity to express our gratitude to ACCESS Co. for responding to our request, and to David in particular for taking the time to make this happen. ACCESS Co. Ldt. is a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets. For more information, check out the ACCESS website.

Extended Deadline for GSoC 2007 Applications (Updated)

News posted by Katisu on Sat, 2007-03-24 05:00
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Google has extended the student application deadline for Google Summer of Code 2007 to 12:00 AM UTC on March 27, 2007. Students that are still interested in working on a project for Haiku are urged to finish their application and get it in by the new deadline.

Google Summer of Code 2007: We Are In!

News posted by koki on Thu, 2007-03-15 11:37
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We are pleased and at the same time thrilled to inform the community that Google has accepted our application to become a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007. Yes, we have made it! Students now have until March 24 to apply for any of our project ideas from the GSoC Web App for Student Applicants. If you are a student and are interested in working on one of our project ideas, please check out our List of GSoC Ideas and Students: How to Apply pages for detailed information.

To the existing Haiku community, please be welcoming and supportive of the students pursuing working with Haiku for the GSoC: after all, their success will be our success too.

Haiku to be Presented at Numerica

News posted by Kor on Tue, 2007-03-06 13:50
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Long time Haiku developer François Revol (a.k.a. mmu_man) is scheduled to give a Haiku presentation at the first Numerica Art Party, an event sponsored by A.D.A.N., the French Association for the Development of Digital Art. Numerica #01 will be taking place from March 9th through the 11th in Montbeliard, France. The Haiku Conference by François is scheduled for Saturday March 10h, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm (GMT+01:00), and will be broadcast live on the web TV demoscene.tv. Stay tuned!

For more information regarding registration, remote entries, competitions, and timetable, please visit the Numerica website.

Google Summer of Code 2007 Drive

News posted by koki on Sat, 2007-03-03 08:32
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The application period for the Google Summer of Code 2007 is close, and as Haiku prepares to submit its application to attempt becoming a mentor organization, we are initiating a drive with the goal engaging the Haiku community at large. We will be submitting our application on March 5th or 6th, and expect to know whether our application has been accepted on March 14th, the day that Google is scheduled to announce the accepted mentoring organizations on code.google.com. Please check out our GSoC 2007 Drive page to see what you can do to help raise our chances of making it into GSoC 2007!