News Index

NetBSD's pkgsrc Bootstraps in Haiku

News by Jorge G. Mare on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 14:49

Haiku development keeps making progress in itself, but we are also seeing quite a bit of Haiku-related developments in other open source projects, this one coming from the NetBSD camp. According to an email from NetBSD developer Akio Obata, he has successfully bootstraped pkgsrc on Haiku. pkgsrc is the NetBSD Packages Collection, a framework with over 8000 packages that allows building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems (supported platforms). Thanks to the work of Obata-san, support for Haiku is expected to be added to pkgsrc soon, hopefully in the next stable release named pkgsrc-2010Q1. We talked briefly with Obata-san, and here is a mini-interview with him.

Console MSN Client gtmess Being Ported to Haiku

News by Jorge G. Mare on Wed, 12/30/2009 - 13:17

We have reports from Gabriel Duarte that he is working on a Haiku port of the console MSN messenger client gtmess. According to Gabriel, getting the configure script and the build to work in Haiku was a challenge, but he has finally been able to compile gtmess using GCC4, and the client is now working nicely, as can be seen from the following screenshot.

Building the OpenJDK Hotspot Repository in Haiku

News by Jorge G. Mare on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 19:35

Andrew Bachmann, the developer who leads the project to port SUN's OpenJDK to Haiku, has been busy lately making progress with his effort to bring Java to the Haiku platform. Known for having worked on the port of Java to BeOS (which you can see in action here), Andrew recently has posted on the Haiku Blog-O-Sphere step-by-step instructions on how to build the OpenJDK "hotspot" repository in Haiku. The result of this build process is a partial JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which includes the libjvm.so libraries.

Experimental Gnash for Haiku Updated to v0.8.6

News by Jorge G. Mare on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 14:45

Adrian Panasiuk has quietly updated his Haiku port of the open source Flash movie player Gnash for use in Haiku R1/Alpha 1. The updated package consists of Gnash 0.8.6 with changes required to run under Haiku, as well as a script to add the SWF mime type. Adrien has also developed Firefox plugins that allow viewing Flash movies inside the BezillaBrowser bundled with Haiku.

QEMU for Haiku Now Available

News by Jorge G. Mare on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:34

Haiku developer Michael Lotz has released the first version of QEMU processor emulator for Haiku. This Haiku-specific port — a successor to QEMU for BeOS, the port that Michael Lotz maintained for several years — is up to date and includes most features found on other supported platforms, including a native GUI, an audio backend and the kqemu accelerator.

Begeistert 021 Reports and Presentations

News by Jorge G. Mare on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 01:04

The first reports from the Begeistert 021 Haiku conference are finally starting to surface. First we have a report from long time community member Daniel Texeira at IsComputerOn. Later today Haiku developer François Revol posted his experiences of Begeistert and the Haiku Code Sprint that followed on the Haiku Blog-O-Sphere. In addition to these reports, we have also located both slides as well as a video of some of the presentations held during the event.

Haiku OpenJDK Port Now Has Official Repository

News by Jorge G. Mare on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 12:54

After a long wait since the project was kicked off back in early 2008, the Haiku OpenJDK Port sponsored by the OpenJDK Porters Group finally has an official Mercurial forest. The forest, which has already seen some commits, is expected to become a crucial tool in enabling the collaboration expressed over time by several individuals whose efforts were constrained due to the lack of a source code repository. Commits to the Haiku OpenJDK Port repository can be followed through the haiku-port-dev mailing list or the online change log. On a related note, according to the project's lead developer, Andrew Bachmann, he has translated the MakeDeps tool to C++, so that it is suitable for building OpenJDK on any platform without the need for java.

BeGeistert Starts this Weekend, Haiku Coding Sprint Follows

News by Jorge G. Mare on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 12:30

As recently announced by Haiku developer Stephan Assmus, the Haiku community event BeGeistert is set to kick off this weekend. The event, to be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, on the weekend of October 17 and 18, will be followed a one-week Haiku code sprint. Under a "21st Century OS" banner, this the 21st edition of BeGeistert is expected to have the largest attendance of all times. These are some of the workshops and talks scheduled for the event:

Haiku-specific "yab" in the Works

News by Jorge G. Mare on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:47

Team Maui developer Jan (aka jan__64) reports on the official yab forums that work has recently been going into the next version of yab — a BASIC style programming language for BeOS/Haiku — to make TABVIEW, SPINCONTROL and CALENDAR look more Haiku-like. These changes come as part of plans to drop legacy support for BeOS/ZETA, and make yab Haiku-only in the soon to be released version 1.6.

Haiku SVN Repo and Commit Mailing List Move

News by Jorge G. Mare on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 08:47

Starting from revision 33412, the Haiku repository has been moved from Berlios to svn.haiku-os.org, a new subdomain hosted on server dedicated to providing various web services to the Haiku project. As part of the move, the SVN commits mailing list has also been migrated from Berlios to this list on FreeLists.