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Build or Download Firefox 3.6.9 on Haiku

Forum thread started by apgreimann on Fri, 2010-09-10 22:44

Hello, again.

This, I believe, is something that would be useful to whoever might read it, which is why I'm asking: How can I download Firefox 3.6.9 ("Namoroka") on Haiku, or better yet, *successfully* compile it? As of right now, out of all the browsers (e.g. including Web+ and Arora), Firefox 3.0a has the best compatibility.

However, being a curious programmer :), I grabbed a source tarball of Firefox 4 Beta 5 last night, and tried to compile it with the shell, where I found Firefox 4 failed the compilation, with the make file giving out a lot of 'no's' in the preflight necessary to compile the software. I didn't continue, as I've heard that anyone that has tried this is still porting it or it crashes on open. :)

As of right now, Live(tm) Mail takes me to the mobile version, Excel(tm) Online will not work with jumbled icons on the top (Why doesn't OpenOffice.org make an online office suite--seriously?) :D, and several times, Minefield has either froze up the mouse or closed. Once, media_server closed, and clicking the Debug button leaves me holding down Ctrl+Cmd+Delete or Ctrl+Alt+Del, more colloquially, for four seconds. As of right now, and I'd say 75% of the time Minefield works fine, however, you can see there's something up...

Therefore, my question is whether Namoroka or 3.6 is even available for Haiku?

. CPU utilitzation other questions GPU acceleration?

Forum thread started by thatguy on Thu, 2010-09-09 19:05

First off i'd like to say. what a great OS you have here. Just got it booted on a nice modern machine. wow its so much better then windows in so many regards to user interaction. Its how a Os should be.

Color me impressed,this is a great open source OS.

anyways I noticed that in a few of the demo apps its shows my cpu usages at 100% on a quad core machine but the tracker CPU monitor disagrees. I also noticed that threads seemed to not be scheduling correclty. I can turn off all but one core in the demo apps and it makes no difference on the execution of the openGL demos teapot.

I don't know if this is a bug or a optimization issue.

The CPU is a 9550 AMD phenom. I am unsure of why but it also seems like the total cpu utilitzation is rather low around 15% when the teapot demo shows less. same with the other graphics application. the name escapes me currently.

I have another question. Is the haiku team considering implementing GPU acceleration ? Not for graphics but for general computing ?

Mactel support

Forum thread started by thisguyiknow on Thu, 2010-09-09 00:51

Just got an ext USB disk to boot into haiku on my Apple MacBook Pro (1.1) --- no sound or wireless---any help turning on the functionality of these-- gleaning the internet doesn't do much ----

thanks,

Derek

Can a distro of Haiku be made in the future?

Forum thread started by apgreimann on Wed, 2010-09-08 03:56

Hello, all. Earlier, I had posted on allowing WPA Wi-fi to work on an Aspire One(tm) netbook, and found that Ethernet is much more stable--the netbook's now got Haiku dual-booting on it happily--with Internet. :)

I absolutely like the Haiku, and the simple UI it presents. The developers did a fantastic job, and hours of work were clearly put into it. However, could I be brave enough to put forth a simple question? Could Haiku ever be "re-spinned" or forked into a distro by *anyone*, like how Linux is? (I know Haiku's MIT, and Linux is GPL.) I think if re-spinning was allowed, it'd increase Haiku's usage share, as it'd allow more users to get aquainted with it quickly. It'd be as popular or even more popular than Linux, if so. :)

(And, if I may, can I add a sub-question to that? Does anyone know what causes the PC to not turn off after shutting down? Again, I'm on a netbook--an Acer(tm) AOA150. Maybe others are having this issue, too, so I thought I'd post that. :D)

Personally, I've dreamed of re-spinning like in Linux, but it'd be cool if anyone could do it. Is this something that can be done in a Linux-like fashion? If not or so, can you please post back?

Thanks for reading! :)

haikuware downtime

Forum thread started by kvdman on Wed, 2010-09-01 00:18

Hi,

Haikuware is down now, and should be back up Sept. 1st ~ 8:00 GMT + 2:00.

Thanks for your understanding.

Responsiveness from "inside" of some programs, not just "between" them

Forum thread started by FelixCold on Mon, 2010-08-30 00:11

Typical situation - sudden computer overload by "heavy" multimedia content, most frequently this happens after opening a link in a browser leading to some page with lots of video/flash/animations, or after opening some "full-HD" multimedia file inside player, especially if computer at that moment was already near overload (then some programs could become overloaded simultaneously).
Probably the worst case - opening a multi-tabbed browser with auto-starting HD videos in (all or many) multiple tabs (this way behaves well known youtube & many other similar sites), what can happen after watching those videos consequently one by one in different tabs/windows of the same browser (this is useful if data stream ongoing from internet lags to real-time playback speed), then closing/opening that browser with "last session restore" (as usually) on.

So, how will computer with Haiku behave in such a case?
From my common knowledge about BeOS/Haiku I expect the whole OS to be controllable - that is, the ability to switch between different programs & to use those other programs to some extent should remain, but how about responsiveness of that particular overloaded program(s), which as I understand can be from "third parties" regarding OS itself, like Opera browser or VLC player, & which I know from my experience in "windows" as being not responsive - though these programs should be considered enough "progressive" among other similar ones, I don't expect their BeOS/Haiku versions to be much different in behavior than familiar "windows" versions.
If that "inside" responsiveness doesn't exist, what's the big reason of having such a "responsive" whole OS then?
How then this should be so much better than simply controlling different programs by their priority levels in windows task manager - for dealing with this new OS to be worth efforts?

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