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choose d*** configuration

Forum thread started by moster on Thu, 2014-09-04 19:34

Please, learn from linux mistakes.
Lets make intel haswell 100% compatible for people who would actually buy new computer and they would want it to be 100% compatibile with haiku. How else I ask you? Linux is much much bigger project and there is no 100% guarantie that you will buy somethong nee bug free. Please dont mrntion eindows because they actually have paud developets amd your hardware will work
eventually very good.

Now rant. Alternative is this. You have everything working but wifi, or mouse, or both. Or somebody said that this mbo with this chipset is working great but actually had really bad lag hdd IO. A nightmare that keep linux desktop hovering at 1-2%. And yes that is hard truth that free and virus free os is at frikin 2% adoption.

Alternate downloads (torrents, etc.)

Forum thread started by lubod on Mon, 2014-09-01 16:27

Has the idea of alternate download methods for disk images, like torrents been discussed?

It may be hard to implement right now due to a small userbase, and may mean that in the
short term, the original download server is the only seed, but it has the distinct
advantage that the more the userbase grows, and the more people leave their client online
after their own download has finished, the more it relieves the stress on the original
server.

As a bonus, torrents are automatically check-summed during download with no user
interaction, so the chances of a corrupt download go down.

Haiku Nightly Image downloads

Forum thread started by lubod on Mon, 2014-09-01 16:14

Can one of the admins who has sufficient access redirect:

http://www.haiku-files.org/haiku/development/

to the more up to date (including checksums) download page:

http://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_gcc2_hybrid/

or simply mirror the links/text (maybe even the actual disk images if needed/possible)
of the new page on the old one?

I think having two pages, one of which is no longer updated and has no checksums
is potentially confusing, both to people who may have the old page in their
bookmarks/history and new users who end up at the old page from an existing link on:

https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku#unstable

Replace binary config file by plain text config file

Forum thread started by eanyx on Mon, 2014-08-25 19:32

In latest Haiku release (nightly) most of config files are a species of binary format,
(for example ~/config/settings/ScreenSaver_settings).

As haiku is not BeOS, and as it is free and opensource, why not having all config files in plain text?

note : For R1 with legacy BeOS support this cannot be an easy task.
But it can be done for R2 (BeOS will then be run in emulation mode, and some translation of files can be done).

eanyx

checksum for nightly build

Forum thread started by eanyx on Mon, 2014-08-11 04:37

For security reason, and to verify integrity of the file downloaded,

it would be great to have md5/sha1/sha256/sha512 checksum for nightly haiku build.

Moreover for official release a gpg sign key should be provided.

eanyx.

Integrate audio over IP protocols in the media kit

Forum thread started by flisk on Wed, 2014-07-02 22:14

A lot is going in audio over ip (aoip); things that traditionally belong in the analog domain are now moving to IP networks in all kinds of venues and studios alike, greatly reducing costs and increasing flexibility. What this also means is that the traditional sound card, the interface between computer and other analog or digital audio gear, is dying out and is going to be replaced by networked interfaces. The computer is already IP ready!

Even though there are two open standards for layer 3 aoip (aes67 and ravenna) no os supports them out of the box. There are proprietary drivers available for linux, os X and windows but no open implementations or support in the os. Apple, claiming os X to be THE os for audio, really should have implemented aes67 and ravenna the day they went public... But they didn't.

There is a free wdm driver for Ravenna support from Alcnetworx but I don't think the driver itself is open. Also, wdm is not, to my knowledge, usable for low-latency audio.

Implementing aoip standards in Haiku could attract a lot of attention from experimental and professional audio and would also solve the problem of bringing support for professional interfaces to the platform; something that has plagued linux audio since always. RME has long been the only serious choice available for linux.

This is definitely the future for audio and It could be cool for Haiku to be on the train from the start.

Aes67:
http://www.aes.org/publications/standards/search.cfm?docID=96

Ravenna (superset of, but compatible with, aes67):
http://ravenna.alcnetworx.com

cheers!

Switching to nth tracker application by using exactly one hotkey

Forum thread started by Cottonzoom on Tue, 2014-05-20 09:07

Hi,

I enjoy the way that Win7 and Ubuntu Unity are offering for switching to nth window pinned the taskbar. It's really convenient to remember that

Super + 1 is a file manager
Super + 2 is Google Chrome
Super + 3 is a terminal
Super + 4 is a code editor

and so on rather than cycling through Alt-Tab like crazy.

I'm aware of the multiple workspace capabilities of Haiku, but in that case I'll have to keep a track that each application is located on it's corresponding workspace.

Is it possible to have the same feature in Haiku? If it doesn't, then will it be appreciated in upstream if I code that?

Thanks

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