General Haiku Discussion

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When?

Forum thread started by kikko73 on Tue, 2008-02-05 23:46

Hi to all of you, and sorry for the following basic question.
When Haiku will be ready as a desktop? Ready means stable/reliable
thanks a lot.

What security framework is planned? (DAC/MAC, grsec, pax, selinux .... porting to Haiku?)

Forum thread started by Xab on Mon, 2008-01-28 20:31

Hi,

I just want to know what security framework is planned to Haiku will have.
Is there any planning about implement any DAC framework (like selinux or grsec), any prevented buffer overflow tool (like pax), ... in general about security?

If not, what framework do you like to be ported in Haiku? ;-)

Thanks a lot,
Xan.

haiku-test on laptop

Forum thread started by ahab on Mon, 2008-01-21 19:42

Maybe the following is helpful or of interest for haiku-developers:

I installed Haiku-r23625 on a HDD-partition of my Thinkpad (1536 MB RAM, Pentium M, 1,7 GHz, 120 GB HDD, ATI Radeon 7500, AC97-sound).
Booting is OK. Graphics is well, but no sound. After some minutes of usage comes KDL with message "USB ControllPipe: timeout waiting for queued request to complete" and "PANIC:free(): address 0x90b53c50 already exists in bin free list". It seems to depend on anyone USB-device (mouse).

Firefox/Bon Echo on Walter Rev 23367

Forum thread started by tgx on Fri, 2008-01-11 22:56

There's not a lot of talk about running Firefox on Haiku,
not sure what the present 'official' browser is.
Mostly what I can piece together is stuff people have tried over the
last couple of years.

http://www.freelists.org/archives/openbeos/04-2006/msg00073.html

and

http://community.livejournal.com/bezilla/256635.html?thread=1335163

I can confirm that you can get it going, although it is fairly painful to use. There is little to no mouse support depending on how bad it flakes out while you are using it, so you have to be a real firefox keyboard guru and it is wretchedly slow at times but it crashes due to page content far less often than the available Opera browser and doesn't disable itself after 30 days. Still the mouse issues make it fairly unpleasant for daily use.

Easter Eggs!

Forum thread started by eightbit on Thu, 2008-01-10 14:27

I was browsing the source code and noticed a couple "Easter Eggs". The first one is if you open up "About this system" under the taskbar. Click your mouse along the "A" in the haiku logo, specifically where the orange leaf meets the right side of the "A". A random Fortune will pop up. Also the old control-alt-shift,click the taskbar, pulls up the familiar "Window Decor" option, although it doesn't seem to work yet? Does anyone know of more Eggs?

BSnow Application

Forum thread started by OmerBalamir on Sat, 2008-01-05 15:02

I like BSnow demo in last Haiku image...But where can i find this demo running in Zeta or BeOS R5..

In BeBits (http://www.bebits.com/app/3738) links are not working.

Can anyone help ?

Using haiku's USB with R5

Forum thread started by eightbit on Wed, 2008-01-02 14:38

Has usb in haiku advanced enough to call for some newer prebuilt binaries for R5? Is this something that should be on bebits.com? I would love to see full usb support in R5. Refer to this blog http://haiku-os.org/blog/mmlr/2007-04-20/using_the_haiku_usb_stack#comme...

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