General Haiku Discussion

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This is hard... Let's go to linux!

Forum thread started by peroxidechicken on Mon, 2014-09-01 23:37

This is how I find out? http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20140901#news (Haiku developers consider adopting Linux kernel) I feel so cheated...

Kidding - mostly. ;)

Current linux user here but long time Haiku / BeOS follower (with Amiga roots to boot). Linux and linux programmers are great but when they can't think outside of that box, what are they doing here? There's plenty of linux distros they can choose from, why do they have to morph something unique into yet another ... ? Also, what's stopping the pro-linux crowd from forking so that those with the original Haiku vision won't have all their work wasted? I'd be happy to try a forked linux-haiku hybrid but I don't want to lose the unique OS this project has promised to bring back for so long.

Speaking of 'morph'... I still dabble in a particular, modern reinterpretation of what the Amiga was - MorphOS. It's closed source, has a comparatively small (but very productive) developer team, not to mention, kinda small user base. But it exists and it works and pushes ahead despite a number of times in the past that it could have been scuttled. There's actually two other Amiga re-spins - AmigaOS (also closed source) and AROS (open source) - with a certain amount of collaboration between them. If a linux-haiku fork happens, I don't see why the loss of those programmers should be a complete loss - there can still be a degree of collaboration here too.

Does HaikuPorter have just the binaries?

Forum thread started by steveh2009 on Sat, 2014-08-23 13:31

First time I'm venturing into the nightlies now using the package manager and was wondering if I can pull just the various binaries for what works instead of it pulling down the source code and compiling? All I did so far was "haikuporter vim" and it took well over an hour to compile libtools, ncurses, etc. Shouln't this be like the installextrapackages where the very common, everyday used tools come pre-compiled and the install is quick with far less diskspace used?

Next release/alpha/beta

Forum thread started by km on Wed, 2014-08-20 19:12

Hi all, just wondering when the next 'release' is scheduled.
(R1Alpha4.1 is latest?)(November 14th, 2012)

Attracting Developers

Forum thread started by spiraleyes on Sat, 2014-08-16 23:01

I am wondering, what, if anything, is Haiku and it's contributors doing to attract developers of programs more "elaborate" than utilities? Perusing the HaikuWare site, on the comments of one of the AbiWord downloads, someone posted an email from the developers when asking about Haiku support. It was rather nasty, if you haven't seen it, but they had one point. Haiku is in alpha. I don't see a lot of people outside the Haiku community making programs, because they don't know that the API is fairly stable, and they won't have to recode their program because of changes in the alpha stage. All they know is screenshots, the name, and maybe the r1a4.1 image in a VM. Now, I'm not going to get into the whole "let's bring it out of alpha" argument, I've seen enough of those to know your good reasons not to do so (and not being able to in some ways). But as a fairly new person to the Haiku community (been here about a year), I would love to see bigger developers taking it seriously. I am curious as to what people are doing, and also what I can do as a user to help "spread the word".

Thanks

Haiku İntel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 Driver

Forum thread started by Ege on Fri, 2014-08-15 15:23

Hello, is there any way to make this wifi-card work under haiku?

Donation Indicator

Forum thread started by spiraleyes on Tue, 2014-08-12 03:29

The graphic on the haiku-os.org from page that shows us the current donations and how close we are to goal have not been updated since last march. I noticed the haiku inc. site says the same thing. I can't find any info on it, so I was wondering if it was broken somehow? Would be nice to know if PulkoMandy at least gets another month of dev time

THanks

Hello! - Old BeOS user, New Haiku user!

Forum thread started by Red Pyramid on Fri, 2014-08-08 21:41

Hey world!

I'm Josh, I'm a 28 year old webmaster from Texas. I used BeOS for years when Be Inc. was still around. After Be Inc. went under I was hoping something new would happen in the realm of either BeOS being continued or something!!

I discovered Haiku OS about 1 1/2 to 2 years ago, and played around with it for a bit and really liked it.

Now I have set one of my old server PC's back up as a dedicated Haiku-OS machine, to just fool around with. Also possibly contribute to the project with either code or graphics. I have some programming background, though mostly in C, x86 Assembly and PERL. (and if you go far enough in my past, BASIC.. worthless now! LOL!)

I really like where this project is headed and where it is currently. I would like to hang out in these forums and learn. Please do drop in this thread and say hi to me! :D

Josh

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