General Haiku Discussion

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Firewall and antivirus utilities in Haiku's future?

Forum thread started by dcatt on Wed, 2012-09-05 00:46

With computer security taking almost center stage these days in the minds of concerned computer users I was wondering what does the future hold for possible firewall and antivirus utilities for Haiku (even shipping out of the box)?

Any strong opinions on the subject?

compatible intel four-core motherboards for BeOS?

Forum thread started by kp3ft on Tue, 2012-09-04 13:56

Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone out there has successfully got BeOS to use all four cores of an Intel processor on any specific motherboards. I found a great article here:

http://littlebluerodent.tripod.com/MIDI/Modern_hardware.htm

on how to get BeOS to run on a DFI Infinity P965-S motherboard, but these MB's are hard to find. The author suggest using the DFI P35-T2L or P35-T2RL which are much easier to find, but said he's not sure if they are compatible or not. I could buy MB's, but that would get expensive very fast if they don't work. The main issue is if the MB's BIOS settings has specifically "MPS" (multi processor support) as a choice in the menu. Newer boards use a newer mlti-processor setup that BeOS doesn't support. I mainly want to be able to turn the four cores on and off. Full-native support is very unlikely, but not a problem because supported cards can be added (ethernet, sound, video, etc.) Thanks for any help.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Haiku would probably work on a 4-core intel processor, but since we are using BeOS with Tunetracker as our FM radio station's automation computer, we want to upgrade the computer itself and re-install the Tunetracker version we purchased. The version we have won't work under Haiku.

Where are the nightly images?

Forum thread started by bbjimmy on Sun, 2012-09-02 20:21

The last nightly image is hrev44584, but we are now at hrev 44600. There are a lot of changes that need to be tested.

AMD processors

Forum thread started by zx_ on Fri, 2012-08-31 09:53

if the Haiku supports AMD processors?

c1e disable now?

I want to make AMD Haiku box for Alpha 4

tnx

Video on Haiku

Forum thread started by ronald-scheckelhoff on Thu, 2012-08-30 02:16

Hello all:

I've never previously ported third party code over to the Haiku, and I certainly never thought that a webm movie viewer could be the first thing I might try. Thanks to a great piece of work by Chris Double (https://github.com/doublec/webm-player) - I'm viewing webm movies on my Haiku desktop tonight. The video is great - no hesitation or jerkiness - but the port is still not producing any audio. The only dependencies are libvorbis, libogg, and libsdl. The libvpx/8 decoder is statically linked. I used the binaries from haiku-files.org/files/lib for vorbis, ogg and SDL. If anyone wants to try the webm video viewer, I've put a copy of the r1a3 binary (includes no vorbis, ogg or sdl libs) at:

http://rscheckelhoff.users.sourceforge.net/get-haiku-video.html

If you need a webm file to try with the viewer, you can find one at http://video.webmfiles.org/demo-files/

The big rabbit is hillarious, and the elephant movie is ... entertaining.

Since Youtube now supports webm video files, this thing should be pretty useful. I should put the source files into a package that's been "Haikuized" (the compilation of the binary was an on-the-fly adhoc operation). Then maybe someone else in the community can add the audio if I don't have the time. Chris's code is BSD licensed.

Maybe this thing could be worked into WebPositive as part of HTML5 implementation ...

The dependency files may be gotten from:

libsdl-1.2.14-r1a3 ... .zip
libvorbix-1.3.2-r1a3 ... .zip
libogg-1.2.2-r1a3 ... .zip

These zips are to be extracted from within /boot

The webm binary is a command line video player, and takes a filename (.webm)

Enjoy!

Few questions about haiku

Forum thread started by stonedmind on Tue, 2012-08-28 11:48

Hi, guys. I have some questions. Where i can find info about terminal in haiku and how FS is works? I hear its use data base, what DB is used? Thank you for answers.

Thinkpad X61 and haiku

Forum thread started by Munchausen on Mon, 2012-08-20 12:24

I intend to switch to using haiku for my day-to-day computing, however for this to be practical I need a well supported laptop. I've managed to scrape enough cash together to buy a second hand X61. I understand support for thinkpads is generally pretty good, and the entry in haikuware for the X61s supports this, but I just want to check before I buy how this model behaves with recent nightlies? Specfically networking, sound, and power management (cpu frequency, battery monitoring etc).

Thanks!

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