General Haiku Discussion

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icon view in tracker

Forum thread started by akhenaton on Sun, 2010-12-05 11:15

Hi, every body.
Haiku is very cool OS, i like it very much, but icon view in tracker is not very cool, it freezes haiku when opening
a large number of files or folders,i think it will be very cool to improve icon view and make it the default view
in tracker.

thank you

Score +1 for haiku

Forum thread started by 6foot3 on Sat, 2010-12-04 09:08

Regulars may remember me describing how I got Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.04, Mac OSX and haiku all installed on a single hard drive on an Intel D945GCLF2 mobo (1.6 GHz, dual core Atom D330 CPU). Well I decided to upgrade to the new Intel D525MW mobo (Atom D525 1.8GHz, dual core, faster memory bus).

As expected Mac OSX no longer boots since the hack which allows it to work on non apple hardware is specific to the motherboard.

Ubuntu came up with a garbled screen on first boot and I had to reboot into recovery mode and choose xfix, after which it booted up into my new screen's 1600x1200 native resolution. Might have been more a result of the new display than the new mobo but, still..

Windows 7 came up and appeared to be installing the required drivers for the new mobo which took a while. It also started reporting "This copy of Windows is not genuine" but, that may be related to more than just the hardware change.

Here's where haiku trumped them all. It just booted up as usual no fuss. It even automatically detected the display and set the correct resolution. Sound worked, network card detected, everything seems A OK!!! Impressive for a little upstart OS (that's still in alpha).

Alan

Haiku Gazette is back

Forum thread started by humdinger on Thu, 2010-12-02 07:11

Hi there!

Just a quick announcement (esp. for German Haiku users): after a few months of being unreachable, the German Haiku news site Haiku Gazette is back online. I have moved it back to its old home at Google's Blogger at http://haiku-gazette.blogspot.com.
Over the next days/weeks I'll re-add the 2 years worth of articles from the lost haiku-gazette.de site. I only have the email send-out of those articles without formatting, so it'll take a while... (But since I caught a cold, this is just the mind numbing work I need...:)

Thanks for stopping by the new/old Haiku Gazette!
Regards,
Humdinger

Haiku on Asus eee pc 701 4G

Forum thread started by polle on Thu, 2010-11-25 12:32

Just installed the haiku r1 alpha 2 on a usb stick and booted my eee pc from this.
Must say it was a pleasant surprise to see how good haiku already works on this netbook:
sounds works, network works, after disabling wpa on my router wireless works.
(I tried aslo wifi thetering with joikuspot on my nokia, but that didn't wotk suppose the wirelss in haiku doens't support adhoc connection?)
Seems a very good alternative to use on this laptop, thanks for the nice work

Building Haiku and wifi

Forum thread started by augdawg09 on Sun, 2010-11-21 16:58

If I were to download and build the source code for Haiku (the most recent), would there be support for WPA wireless encryption?

List of Haiku web browsers & comparisons

Forum thread started by apgreimann on Fri, 2010-11-19 21:22

For any end users who are interested (maybe I should post this as a document rather than a thread) :), here is a simple list of browsers for Haiku (with a 5-star ranking system based with one star granted per ranking of performance, stability, HTML4+ standards compliance, usability, and extensibility):

- WebPositive (or simply Web+) **** (performance, stability, standards compliance, usability)
- Arora **** (performance, stability, standards compliance, usability)
- Firefox *** (standards compliance, usability, extensibility)
- Net+ **- (stability, usability, some standards compliance)
- Bezilla/Mozilla *- (usability, some standards compliance)

If anyone knows of any more, or thinks this should be made into a document, please let me know! :) Or, for those who want to compare the browsers, feel free to post. :)

why Haiku development so slow ??

Forum thread started by ahm1010 on Sun, 2010-11-14 11:37

Hello
I just come to know about Haiku [project very recently. I did a tour in the web site. I have to admit there are a lot to like about Haiku philosophy of trying to unify the user experience. I tried Linux for quite some time but I still I don’t feed Linux is targeting desktop user and Linux community so much fragmented. I like to Haiku philosophy and concept.

However there is one question I could not resist myself to ask. This OS has been under development for the last 9 years and still under alpha 2. I think this is so much slow. Why this project cannot get more programmer to work in it to accelerate the work like Linux distribution. With this rate of development do you really think this project has any chance to compete with other open source OS if consider how Linux progressing for example.

thanks

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