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hda sound and scheduling

Forum thread started by vader on Wed, 2009-05-27 12:51

Hi all,

This is my first post back in the Be/Haiku world for many years! I used to be heavily involved a few years back, and have several apps out there.

Anyway, posting this from my eee 701 running 30871 gcc4, and I must say - impressive! I'm hooked again. I now dual boot haiku :)

Now to the post. I've seen a few of the posts about hda/oss sound. The eee loaded the hda drivers, and sound works fine - until you get to high load, then it just stops. Most notably, looking at pages in BeZilla caused severe corruption to the sound. After playing around a bit, I decreased the priority of the main BeZilla thread right down to 1 (lowest active priority), and suddenly all problems are fixed. Couldn't find anyone else saying this, so I thought I'd put it here in case it helps. Web browsing still is quite snappy too. I haven't looked at the code yet, so I am just guessing - but it does seem like a scheduling problem (either wrong priorities, or scheduling algorithm).

Cheers,
Jeff

Multiple users

Forum thread started by wjstarck on Tue, 2009-05-26 13:24

I don't remember BeOS having multi user capability (did it?).

How does/will Haiku handle this?

Cheers,

Will

Creating an Haiku LiveCD

Forum thread started by TheComputerGuy on Sun, 2009-05-03 16:42

Hello!

Firstly, sorry for my bad english, I'm from Brazil :P

I'm an Newbie in the Haiku Universe, but I've downloaded the system and saw that's very fast and stable. So, I'm trying to build an Haiku Live-CD for showing it to the people :P

I tried using GRUB, but, without success. I saw on some forums that the CD need to use an floppy boot image as the first track, and the second track the system itself. But, where can I find this image? I'm using Linux now.

Best Regards,
Daniel Sader (TheComputerGuy)

Are the automatically crated vmware images hybrid builds?

Forum thread started by kitsune on Fri, 2009-04-17 07:16

GCC 2.95/4.0 I mean...

Thanks

MIT vs. GCC4.3+ license crash?

Forum thread started by rlees on Wed, 2009-04-15 22:46

Hello,

One of the reasons I am drawn to Haiku is the MIT license. IMHO, the use of the GPLv3 license (in GCC version 4.3 and all beyond) reduces MIT code that links to GPLv3 code to the lowest common denominator, which is GPLv3 licensed code.

The FreeBSD project is currently wrestling with this same conundrum. Thus far, they are staying with GCC version 4.2.1 (last GPLv2), and some of them are attempting to push the Clang/LLVM compiler project to the point where it will self-host FreeBSD. In fact, I think that they have successfully done this, but not to the point of production.

Has anyone brought up the idea of Clang/LLVM for Haiku?

Haiku as a NAS OS? How is going OpenBeFS?

Forum thread started by NexusCrawler on Wed, 2009-04-15 16:29

Hi people,

Lately I was pondering a problem with a friend of mine: how to easilly find stored files when you have a lot of files.

As amazing it sounds, there is no easy solution to this problem... Besides using BeOS and its wonderful attributes/queries system! ;-)

So, we came up with the idea of using Haiku as the operating system for a home-brewed NAS (Network Attached Storage). It actually makes a lot of sense: the query system needs to be on the device hosting the data. Using a BeOS/Haiku NAS would be able to store all the data on BeFS partitions, using attributes to enter additionnal informations about the files ands using the amazing query system of BeOS/Haiku to easilly find anything back.

All the querying stuff can be easilly done from another computer, using SSH (or even plain telnet at first) to issue commands to the terminal of the BeOS/Haiku machine. Samba would be used to add and retrieve easilly files from the NAS. Management of the attributes of the files would be easy too by using again SSH/telnet.

So, it looks like it would be quite an easy task and the result would be exactly what we want. The perfect solution! :-)

My question is more about the Haiku status... Do you think it would be a good idea to use Haiku to build this NAS? Haiku is still young and the worst thing that could happen would be loss of the stored data.

Actually, I really wonder about OpenBeFS. If Haiku crashes, well, it's not the end of the world; we're speaking of a home NAS that could be easilly rebooted, and that is not used for critical tasks. I'm more concerned about corruption of the file-system itself, and losing content of the disks. That would be much more a problem than a simple crash of the OS. Besides, another problem is that basically you can't read BeFS/OpenBeFS partitions from Windows or Linux. There barely is some read-only driver that looks unfinished and untrustworthy.

So how is going OpenBeFS? Is it stable, good working, reliable?

Actually, I would be more confident in using BeOS rather than Haiku because it isn't alpha software :-) but on the other side, using software that died nearly ten years ago is always a bad idea. Moreover I can't think of getting BeOS working properly on any modern hardware... Especially the Gigabit network card :-P

We also searched for a solution using Linux but to no avail. Looks like BeOS, so many years after its death, still have miles of advances over other operating systems in some areas. Basically it's very hard to find a common file-system that provides attributes in a BeFS way, and then no software ever use it. BlueEyedOS could have ultimately provided it (BeOS features on top of Linux) but like all BeOS-aftermath projects except Haiku, it died several years ago. I'm at the point where we either do it with Haiku, or completely forget the idea of queries :-( and go for a more classic route.

What do you think about it?

10th RMLL LSM (Libre Software Meeting)

Forum thread started by luctis on Wed, 2009-04-15 05:52

Hi all,
will Haiku be in this event?

At this moment other events are too far for me.

(By the way, and some possible event in Spain?)

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