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Wipe away obstacles (real or virtual)

Forum thread started by Octopus on Sun, 2012-06-17 15:54

For years I am watching Haiku's progress and shaping. I do this rather distantly, maybe because is not easy for me to follow some really strange discussions in English language, often targeting very far topics like linux, strange development languages etc..

It could give new motivation for me and others to develop within Haiku, if (best inside a beta release):

a) officially recommend one stable development environment: a kind of an IDE, modern compiler and library

b) officially recommend C++ as the best supported Haiku development language

c) enhance Haiku public relations by announcing Haiku to be a performant, stable and free C++ development platform

d) have a yearly programmers competition to win a relevant amount of money from the raised Haiku programmers' fund for writing a genuine Haiku application

Pyku (Python GUI Kit for Haiku)

Forum thread started by kurtis on Wed, 2012-06-13 14:45

Just what the title says. I'm a Python programmer. Maybe one day I'll get around to actually tinkering around with it. There's a lot to learn first :)

BeMyFriendOS[Facebook Phone needs an OS]

Forum thread started by T Finis on Thu, 2012-05-31 04:17

Read an article about Facebook running into major hurdles with the transition from Platform to OS.

Shoot Zuck and email.

You can use "BeMyFriendOS" gratis. lol.

$49 rPI competitor by VIA

Forum thread started by forart.it on Fri, 2012-05-25 10:36

More tiny computers alternatives on the scene:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/another-tiny-computer-vias-49-apc...

Note that VIA is very open source friendly, so it could be interesting to establish a contact with them...

Bescript

Forum thread started by nonne on Wed, 2012-05-16 01:18

It would be nice if someone could finish developing bescript and rename it to haikuscript or something. Haiku needs a native scripting language, similar to applescript.

http://haikuware.com/remository/start-download/development/language/besc...

MeLE A1000/A2000

Forum thread started by lxstoian on Wed, 2012-05-09 19:45

As it seemed that I'd never get my mittens on a Raspberry pi I decided to look for alternatives. I stumbled over this little Chinese ARM pc / media center. What is interesting about this little guy is the fact that the A10 + Mali400 platform is quite open , plus the device is completely unbrickable.
Specs wise it's in another league compered to the PI.
Cpu is a cortex A8 1.0 ghz , overclockable to 1.5 ghz. For the Mali gpu there is already an open source driver effort going on.
512 mb RAM , 306 mb for OS and 206 for GPU.
It has 3 usb ports , one optical out for sound , RCA video out , VGA out , HDMI out. One more usb port unused on the board.
There is an Ethernet port , realteck wifi b/g/n chip , SD/SDHC slot.
And my favorite , a slot for any 2.5 inch SATA hard disk.

The price is quite low , 115 usd with shipping to Romania. For US the shipping might be lower. The device itself is 70 usd.

More info here : http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/04/04/mele-a2000-android-2-3-media-play...

I already got Ubuntu and Debian up and running on it. For the Android fans it ships with 2.3 and there is a 4.0 ROM out there.

My suggestion was to have as small fund raiser to get something like this for the developers that would like to port Haiku to ARM. This seems a more interesting device then the PI.
Would anyone be interested in this ?

More info : http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/

Place where I got mine : http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/106689708.html

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