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Haiku Gets Featured Speaker Spot & Booth at SCaLE 6x Expo

News posted on Tue, 2007-11-13 13:10
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Haiku to be featured at SCaLE 6x Expo on February 9 & 10, 2008I am pleased and very excited to announce that our application for a booth and a feature speaker spot at the SCaLE 6x Expo have both been accepted. Yes, you read well: we will not only have a booth (for the second consecutive year), but Haiku developer and “Googler” Bruno G. Albuquerque will also be presenting our project and operating system as one of the few featured speakers that SCaLE invites every year among prominent members of the open source community. This is the first time Haiku is awarded a speaker spot at a renowned open source event, and we are proud of this achievement.

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Reinventing Haiku

News posted on Thu, 2007-10-18 09:50
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2007 has been a year of change for Haiku. None of it has been quite like this, however. Haiku, as an organization, is reinventing itself. First of all, on Aug. 31, Michael Phipps announced to the Haiku admin team that he intended to move on. Here are some of his words on the subject:


"... I think that it is time that I move on. Haiku has become something that I do because I have to. ... I am *NOT* in any way angry or bitter. I WANT Haiku to succeed. I still love it. ... This has been a great run and I am phenomenally proud of what we have accomplished here. I am very sad to be leaving, but I think that it is the right decision both for Haiku and for me personally."

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AHCI SATA driver ready for testing

News posted on Mon, 2007-10-01 10:45

Marcus Overhagen announced that his AHCI SATA driver is now ready for testing. If you have an AHCI compliant chipset, and a SATA hard drive attached, you may want to give his driver a try.

Most current motherboards are AHCI compliant - it is the defacto SATA device driver standard. This driver allows you to run Haiku on modern hardware natively, without using a PATA emulation that may be provided by your BIOS.

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NORCAL-HUG Event: GSoC 2007 Haiku Mentor Appreciation Day

News posted on Sun, 2007-09-30 23:43
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Jorge 'Koki' Mare and his fellow NorCal Haiku User Group members have graciously put together an event in honor of Stephan Aßmus, Oliver Ruiz Dorantes and myself to take place Sunday, October 7th. This will be from 1PM to 5PM at the Wild Palms Hotel in Sunnyvale, CA, where we are staying for the Google SoC Mentor Summit. If you live in the area, please check Jorge's post on the NORCAL-HUG site and sign up! We look forward to meeting everyone!

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Announcing NORCAL-HUG

News posted on Mon, 2007-09-24 23:26
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Posted to the Haiku mailing list earlier today was an announcement of another Haiku user group. BeOS in its heyday had user groups -- BUGs -- and it is good to see the appearance of corresponding groups for our favorite underdog operating system. Below are all the details as written by Jorge Mare (aka Koki) himself.

Hello Haiku Fans,

During the Haiku gathering at the Picn*x event last August, a few of us who live in and around the San Francisco Bay Area talked about presenting Haiku at user group meetings in the area. In the following weeks we continued these discussions, and today we are happy to announce the creation of the Northern California Haiku User Group, or NORCAL-HUG for short.

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Haiku at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, October 6th

News posted on Thu, 2007-09-20 23:18
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Each year after the Summer of Code is over, Google holds an informal Mentor Summit at their Mountain View, CA office to allow mentors to meet each other and talk about their experiences in the program. This also allows Google to get first-hand suggestions on what was done right and what could be improved in the program. This year the Summit is being held on Saturday, October 6th.

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2007 Google Summer of Code Summary

News posted on Wed, 2007-09-19 22:31
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2007 was our first year involved in the Google Summer of Code. Looking back on it, it is easy to say that it was a resounding success. We were able to handle 8 students. Work accomplished included a mostly-complete FireWire stack, major improvements in networking, and more. Click Read More for summaries of every student projects.

FireWire stack for Haiku

Student: JiSheng Zhang
Mentor: Jérôme Duval

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PC Active: Haiku, the rebirth of BeOS

News posted on Fri, 2007-09-14 19:04
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The Dutch magazine PC-Active published an article on Haiku in their October issue, based on an interview I gave a few months ago. We are even on the cover! From the article: "Years ago, the alternative operating system BeOS had a small, but very loyal group of supporters. They had a strong belief in the future of 'their' operating system. In 2001, the company behind BeOS ceased to exist. Now, half way through 2007, there is a new group enthousiastic followers. Haiku followers, the reincarnation of BeOS." The article mentions the current status of the project, the history and the open source nature.

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Haiku Turns 6!

News posted on Sat, 2007-08-18 17:00

We are excited to announce that having reached the 18th of August, 2007, the Haiku project is now six years old!
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When the decision to start Haiku these six years ago was made (then still called OpenBeOS), the motivation to reach the goal of creating a functioning BeOS clone was very high. Over time this motivation has seen many ups and downs, and there have been times where development was really stagnant, but there were always the other times in which you could really feel how the system got forward. These rushes of development have also motivated me personally a number of times to follow my todo list and to eventually achieve my development goals. We are pleased to look back and see that we have managed to make this vision become reality to a great extent.

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Haiku Store Opens for Business and Community Contributions

News posted on Tue, 2007-08-07 00:43
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As another avenue to spread awareness of the Haiku project, the Haiku project has opened a store for official Haiku merchandise at CafePress. Find T-shirts, mousepads, coffee mugs, and more! Most items are sold at Haiku's cost and any proceeds go directly to Haiku. Read more for how you can contribute designs for the store. What's more is that this is a community-driven effort. Got a great idea for Haiku stuff? Here are the guidelines:

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