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Slashdot poll: OS I'd Most Like To See Make a Comeback

Forum thread started by bbjimmy on Mon, 2010-12-20 04:52

BeOS and therefore haiku is 32% at 10199 votes

http://slashdot.org/poll/2094/OS-Id-Most-Like-To-See-Make-a-Comeback

Can Haiku be installed on a Mac Mini 2010 Model?

Forum thread started by macsociety on Mon, 2010-12-20 02:50

Would dig running Haiku on my Mac Mini 2010 model. I know via bootcamp I can run Windows. Can I do the same thing with Haiku? I know I can use a virtual PC but would prefer booting direct into Haiku and not doing the whole virtual PC stuff.

Thanks

tj

Officially supported Development Tool Set

Forum thread started by Octopus on Sun, 2010-12-19 21:34

There a lot of coming gimmicks and functional improvements currently are requested and being built.

But before the motivation will widely grow to put a lot of time and efforts into the writing of generic applications for Haiku there is a need to officially identify a set of prioritized development tools as to be supported for several years. It is not attractive to have the risk to waist ones time. No one is bound to make developments especially using Haiku. Writing for Haiku using C++ should be attractive and not in vain. Because of the programmers' world is full of OS alternatives.

Python programmer use

Forum thread started by aperture123 on Sat, 2010-12-18 01:34

Hiya,

I am a bit new here, and thought I should post this here given the state of the newbie forum. Anyways, I've recently joined Haiku forums, but I've used Haiku for quite a while on my netbook. However, I'd like to start contributing in any way I can, but I'd prefer to do this through programming. However, the issue is the language I know for programming.

All I know is Python. Self-taught, I'm fairly good (I'd like to think) with python development, anything ranging from django to pygame compilations to even easygui. I know Haiku uses bethon, and currently gui applications (e.g. tkinter) are not available. Other than python, I'm also taking a course with Java (which so far I know very little about).

My question is, what can I as a python developer give for the haiku community. I understand that currently C/C++ is the preferred language for the source code, so is there anything I can create utilizing python code? If so, I'd love to know, and would be willing to work right away on it to help out the Haiku as a whole.

Thanks.

Bitcoin donations?

Forum thread started by nonne on Wed, 2010-12-15 16:06

Any plans to support donations through bitcoin? There are no transfet fees, so even micro-donations can be done.

More info about bitcoin: http://www.bitcoin.org/

How Haiku is different from Linux . some other questions

Forum thread started by asifnaz on Mon, 2010-12-13 18:55

I am really very excited about this OS . I need to know if Haiku uses Linux kernel or Linux applications .Same question about freeBSD if you could tell me .
Can it be dual boot with windows ..????

what are minimum system requirements..???

Metadata/database filesystem

Forum thread started by twinbee on Mon, 2010-12-06 16:54

What do people think on here about a metadata/database filesystem? Is there any plans or thoughts of plans for Haiku to use it, maybe as default?

IMHO, it would free us from the maintenance and pain associated with the standard folder-based system we all use. Here's an article I wrote years ago which shows the numerous advantages over the old way:

"Towards A Single Folder Filesystem"
http://www.skytopia.com/project/articles/filesystem.html

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