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Can Haiku remember preferences?

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Thu, 2008-03-27 17:46

I've been using Haiku for a few weeks now in VMware Server on a Dell 4550 desktop. The most recent Haiku version I'm using is from the superpack of 22-03-08
One problem (or maybe it's just an annoyance as it's very easy to fix) is that every time I start up Haiku, I have to redo the changes (or preferences) I've been using ever since I started looking at it. These are things like Screen Resolution, Launch Box and Network Monitor on desktop, Links (text browser) installed.
Is there anyway I can get Haiku to remember these preferences so I don't need to add them in again every time?
Thanks
Paul

Building Haiku on GNU/Linux

Forum thread started by GnuShi on Thu, 2008-03-27 09:21

Hi Folks,

I tried to build Haiku on Debian GNU/Linux, but something went wrong.

  1. ...installed the Linux tools like gcc, texinfo and so on...
  2. svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/haiku/buildtools/trunk

    3. buildtools

  3. cd buildtools/jam
  4. make
  5. sudo ./jam0 install
  6. svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/haiku/haiku/trunk haiku
  7. cd ../../haiku
  8. ./configure --build-cross-tools ../buildtools/
    # also tried gcc4 later with same results
  9. . jam -q haiku-image

>>> Failed after compiling the first sourcefile:
>>> something like: Cannot execute "cc1plus"

Am I missing something?

GnuShi

How To Install Haiku on Microsoft Virtual PC 7, Quick and Easy

Forum thread started by adrian.saileanu on Mon, 2008-03-24 07:06

Trying to find a quick and easy way to install Haiku on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, I came up with the following solution :

Start Virtual PC and create a new Virtual Machine with a new virtual hard disk.

Make sure that this VM can access the internet in order to download the latest Haiku RAW image.

Capture an iso or cdrom with your favorite Linux LiveCD distribution and boot it up. In my case, I'm using a Knoppix iso.

Type the following line :

wget -O - http://sikosis.com/haiku/haiku.image.bz2 | bunzip2 > /dev/hda

wget -O - http://sikosis.com/haiku/haiku.image.bz2 will download and direct the latest compressed image to standard output;

| bunzip2 > /dev/hda will decompress wget's output and write the resulting image to /dev/hda = the path to the block device node of the virtual hard disk;

sync and reboot the system. ( by typing sync [ENTER], then reboot [ENTER] ).

Don't forget to release the captured iso/cdrom.

Enjoy your new Haiku on Virtual PC.

Appendix :

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Knoppix : http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html
Choose a mirror and download the latest CD version : KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
Example : http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso

Another GSoC idea - porting pf to Haiku

Forum thread started by latte on Wed, 2008-03-19 08:05

Hi all -

I had an idea for Haiku in the Google Summer of Code this year - porting OpenBSD's pf to Haiku. ( I'm not saying it'd be easy, but I thought I'd mention it anyway... ;-) )

If I understand correctly, there isn't a lot of security in Haiku at present.
A port of pf could be a good start to the process of "hardening" Haiku's security. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it - I won't be offended if the idea isn't included....
- latte

Did you guys see that GNU leaders 'obsoleted' the beos port of GCC?

Forum thread started by steveh on Thu, 2008-03-13 20:21

I hope that means that a new *-haiku-* branch will be acceptable to them in the near future.

Firefox under Haiku

Forum thread started by tigerdog on Wed, 2008-03-12 18:02

Just a word of thanks to the Haiku team for developing the OS to a point where Firefox is generally useable and in some ways more stable than under BeOS/Zeta! Today, I actually used Haiku on real hardware and Firefox 2 to complete a secure (SSL-based) online purchase transaction. About the only obvious shortcoming is that Firefox does not correctly repaint after pop-ups, etc. Since it intermittantly has similar issues under BeOS, I don't think the fault is entirely with Haiku.

Anyway, many thanks!

Instalation developer tools on VMware Haiku image

Forum thread started by Ori on Sun, 2008-03-09 14:41

Resently I had downloaded the Haiku VMware image and I didn't found any compiler or browser in it. Tell me please how I can to download programs to Haiku image from it? Would you add a C/C++ compiler or browser to the image in future?

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