General Haiku Discussion

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Haiku Kickstarter?

Forum thread started by speewave on Tue, 2013-02-12 18:07

So i've been noticing lately all these cool projects that are on kickstarter (and the success for such products). and it's the most popular site for crowdsourced fundraising.

i was wondering, would a Kickstarter project to raise money to bring Haiku up to speed with hardware and software support, as well as bringing a user base that has probably never heard of haiku or BeOS.

The money can be used to fund development, as well as maybe working with companies like AMD and nVidia for hardware 3D and Video Decoding(Since nowadays GPUS have onboard MPEG2 and even h264 decoders), Introduce the OS to developers to help us get new software...

Have more money for bounty projects, support an x64 version.

i think that there is a lot of potential for Haiku to become a real contender with current desktop OSs. i've probably only used it for maybe about a full day, and i'm surprised at the speed and features out of the box. The boot time is incredible, a lot less bloatware than there is on current os's (even linux). {Seriously took less than 30 seconds on an 12 year old computer to boot it from Live CD)

Port a newer QTWebKit

Forum thread started by Giova84 on Tue, 2013-02-12 15:58

Hi,

In these days i'm trying to port an updated revision (2.2 or 2.3) of QtWebKit for Haiku, since the current QtWebKit for Haiku is outdated and unstable.

I write here to find some help/collaboration, since i've found that is not very simple, due of some errors while compiling. There is someone interested?

Best regards.

Video of my HaikuBox - Acer Aspire AX1300 2.6GHz Quad Phenom

Forum thread started by macsociety on Sun, 2013-02-10 00:35

Took this video showing off my HaikuBox running Haiku R1A4.

For under $100 on the used market, this box screams Haiku.

TJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72pOHR1XN6U

Look what Microsoft learned from BeOS/Haiku

Forum thread started by codewrangler on Thu, 2013-02-07 16:48

Hmmm...Look what Microsoft learned from BeOS/Haiku...

In Windows 8 Desktop mode, the file copy looks very familiar...see the link here:

http://www.codewrangler.com/?attachment_id=477

HVIF Haiku icon for my app "Video Backup Fusion"

Forum thread started by dynup on Mon, 2013-02-04 18:38

Hi all,

I'm an old BeOS user (since 1998) and I currently use the very good Haiku beside Linux. I developed (work in process) an Qt based app to download videos from video portals (YouTube etc.) named "Video Backup Fusion" sience 2011. It runs on Linux, Windows and MacOSX, I ported it to Haiku now. The app icon is in Gnome format (.png bitmap, 128x128), I try to build it new in HVIF format with Icon-O-Matic, but my results are poor. I want to publish ViBaFu for Haiku with a decent app icon!

Is here a graphic artist and can build the Haiku icon for me in HVIF format (.svg)?

Project home: http://dynup.de.vu
App icon: http://sourceforge.net/userapps/gallery/dynup/main.php?g2_view=core.Down...

Hope, anyone can help me!

Thanks!
Kai

HP Pavilion Chromebook

Forum thread started by DFergATL on Mon, 2013-02-04 16:56

Dropbox possibility?

Forum thread started by Scott Puopolo on Sun, 2013-02-03 00:07

Just came across this link. Could have potential for us Haiku-nauts.

https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

"Dropbox Uploader is a bash script you can use to access your Dropbox files from the command line, without having to install the Dropbox client. The script can upload, download, delete, share or list the files available in your Dropbox account.

The script is useful in many situations, including: automatic backups, access Dropbox from an ARM server / Raspberry Pi, etc. (since Dropbox isn't available for ARM). That's because its only requirement is cURL, so you don't have to install the Dropbox client to quickly upload or download some files from Dropbox.

Dropbox Uploader isn't just for Linux and it should work on Mac OSX, FreeBSD or Windows/Cygwin too. Also, since it uses the official Dropbox API for the authentication process, you don't have to enter your username and password and you can easily revoke its access to your account from the Dropbox website.

The first time your run the script, you must create a Dropbox app and allow the script to access your Dropbox account. Simply run ./dropbox_uploader.sh and follow the steps: create a Dropbox App, enter the application key and secret, select if you want to give the script full Dropbox access or just for the app folder and in the end, you'll have to access a link in your web browser to authorize Dropbox Uploader.

simply run the script: ./dropbox_uploader.sh"

Source:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/dropbox-uploader-bash-script-useful-for.html

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