General Haiku Discussion

Permission To Post A Blog?

Forum thread started by Michael Crawford on Mon, 2008-10-13 05:07

When I try to post a blog from my account, it says I don't have permission. Could someone grant it to me? I promise not to post too many links to pr0n sites.

I joined this website, as well is the developer's mailing list in preparation for porting Ogg Frog to Haiku and the BeOS. It will support them from the very first public release.

Thanks! -- Mike

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Haiku runs on Acer Aspire 5520

Forum thread started by lxstoian on Sun, 2008-10-12 18:22

General Haiku Discussion

Haiku can now boot of an usb stick on the Acer Aspire 5520 laptop.
I usually try to boot haiku on my machines every so often and today it finally didn't crash at boot. I have it running without a crash for 2 hours. The network worked with dhcp but I haven't manadged to get the sound card to work even with oss(dough I use oss in open solaris on the same machine and it works). Also the resolution is only 1024x768. The firewire port is detected but I have no way of testing if it works.
Quite impresed with the overall speed of the system, even firefox opens in a decent amount of time and GLTeapot has around 200 fps.
DiskSetup can see all my partitons but none can be mounted as they use xfs.
Great work by the developers behind this project. I can't wait to see the alpha release.

Now time to see how much it can take before it crashes.

The laptops :
Acer Aspire 5520
AMD Turion 64 x2
2 gb ram
NVIDIA GeForce 7000 256 mb

ps. This is posted from Haiku.

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Haiku Documentation

Forum thread started by Joshua Boyles on Tue, 2008-09-30 18:03

General Haiku Discussion

Hey, I just ran Haiku for the first time through virtualbox on my macbook and I love it! I used BeOS back in high school and am way impressed with the progress that the Haiku team has made. Network and audio didn't work but I didn't know it would work with virtual box at all, so it's very cool.

I'd like to help, but I'm not a programmer. I do training on a second level tech support team, creating trainings and cleaning up the knowledgebase, and so one thing I can do is help with user-oriented documentation. I looked through what's available and I think there's a need there, so I'm just wondering who I should get in contact with to start that, what different areas are priorities and how best to submit any documentation.

Just let me know, and if there is a FAQ somewhere that I missed that talks about this please point it out to me.

Thanks

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summercodes

Forum thread started by samui on Sat, 2008-09-27 11:32

General Haiku Discussion

The autumn is here and gsoc projects should be pretty much rolled up I guess. Would anybody be interested to write a wrap-up of the gsoc & code driver projects? I think many of us would be keen to know what was accomplished on that front. Like, what's going on with the DV stuff?

Cheers,

samui

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Haiku on Acer Aspire One (AW150)

Forum thread started by thlnbsrvr on Wed, 2008-09-17 13:44

General Haiku Discussion

Hiya,

old-time BeOS user signing in.
I installed a Haiku image (r27588) on a flash USB disk after reading a thread in the developer maillist archive. I booted my AA1 and lo and behold, Haiku actually booted.. and it booted quickly.
However, as fast as it booted it kernel paniced as well.

Has anyone been able to get it to run properly (albeit possibly limited h/w support) on an AA1?

it's a slightly different beast than the eeePC which has been posted about quite a few times, but I couldn't find any info on the AA1..

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Haiku on Xbox console

Forum thread started by Akuji on Thu, 2008-09-11 18:11

General Haiku Discussion

Is there any possibility to install and run Haiku on original Xbox console? It is very cheap nowadays, and imho it would be interesting to turn it into basic PC connected to TV. As I undertand, hardware specs of original Xbox do match for Haiku hw requirements fairly well, so why not using it in such way?