General Haiku Discussion

A great way to get more app developers to Haiku is to port the Haiku API to other OS'es. Gobe actually already did this with the BeAPI, but unfortunaly the source code isn't available, but it shows that it is in fact possible.

The big hurdle for app programmers is that Haiku is a very small OS and hardly anyone has heard of it so developing Haiku exclusive apps isn't really an option when they can get way more users on other platforms. But if it's was possible to really easily to port to other OS's then they could use Haiku as their development platform making native apps and then port to other platforms without any big hurdle. It's much better if the apps programmed on Haiku first and then ported to other OS'es than the other way around. This way it dosen't matter if Haiku is a tiny platform as long as it easy to develop with it and port apps from it.

This solution, combined with finishing porting Wine to Haiku, is a much better way than trying to port individual apps to Haiku.

Hello

Sometimes I try the latest nightly builds of Haiku. I was happy when yesterday I tried the latest, and I got wifi connection with my Intel Centrino 6230 card. It was automatically select one network, and now I can use the internet.
There was another cool thing: when I set up my mailbox, I only entered my e-mail, and the program filled out the other fields (username, server) perfectly.

But some drivers/options I need to have to use perfectly Haiku on my PC:
- first, it does not see my Kingston mSata SSD drive, so I can use the system only from USB (I do not use any other (IDE/SATA) storage)
- I got a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse what is not working with Haiku (or I do not know how to set it up)
- and I can connect only to free wifi (I do not know how to set up to connect to my home network using WPA2-Personal/AES, because I do not know where to enter the password)

I saw in the source tree of Haiku there are some bluetooth driver/add-on, so may be it is possible to parse my mouse. In the Intel Centrino 6230 there is bluetooth too, but I do not know how to use it.

My configuration:
motherboard: Intel DH61AG
cpu: Intel core i3 2100T
ram: Kingston DDR3-soDIMM 8GB
hdd: Kingston ms100 64GB mSata SSD
net: Intel Centrino 6230 mini-PCIe
mouse: Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 5000

Can somebody help me how can I solve the problems above? Is there any solution, or I need to wait until these parts will be implemented in Haiku?

Thank you!

As I understand this forum isn't useful for talking with developers... Most important development releted discussions are in "Development Mailing Lists". What is it and how to access to it? Or it is private developer disscussion place?

Also I heard about IRC...