Haikuware: Software for Haiku

Reading Koki's recent summary of the LugRadio event, one part struck me and probably a lot of other Haiku users as well (including DarkWyrm). That is, the part where a man approached Koki and then asks him, 'why don't you just help with Linux instead?' Before Koki could even begin to start answering, the man rudely walked away.

Well, the answer is 'because Joe User is a person, too'! (clearly not because the penguin (Tux) is cuter than Haiku's leaves) :-p

And here's a more detailed explanation.

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Multi-User & Activity Monitor

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Written by Karl vom Dorff

Chris Simmons, at Haikunews (to whom we'd like to welcome back to the scene), writes that Francois Revol is working on making Haiku multi-user, or at least a login application thus far. Additionally, Francois has made a replicant out of the new 'Activity Manager' that Axel Doerfler has steadily been working on! You can see both in the very cool screenshot at Haikunews ;)

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Haikuware Superpack Adjusted

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Written by admin

Haikuware's Superpack for Vmware has been renamed and adjusted to comply with Haiku's Distro Guidelines. It will be now known as 'Senryu'.

Senryu is a form of short poetry, like a Haiku, in fact, they're so similar, people have trouble telling them apart. "Senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haikus are serious".

There'll be two versions:

1) Developer Edition
2) Personal Edition

The Developer Edition contains pre-built build tools, Haiku's sources, plus some applications developers may find useful. The image cuts down the need to download gigabytes of data (it's only ~135mb), and saves hours of time figuring out and building an environment by having a pre-built environment that's ready to use immediately - 'it just works'.

The personal edition also contains Haiku's build environment (minus the sources), but has more applications on it that may be of more interest to the end-user. It is meant to demonstrate Haiku's capabilities.

Both images have support for video, audio, network and burning out of the box. We will try to update the User Edition weekly, while the developer edition will be updated less frequently; as needed. There's still a bit of work to do regarding licenses and copyrights, but we'll resolve this soon. Both versions are immediately available. In addition, we'll once again, provide Virtual Box, Qemu, and Parallels images, but these won't be maintained.

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Superpack ceases delivery.

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Written by Karl vom Dorff
Dear all, I have decided to remove all Haiku emulator images from the site. Sorry. Apparently I'm breaching Haiku's distro guidelines. I will work to comply with the rules and regulations properly before redistributing the images here. You can follow discussion about the topic here. Add Comment (5) Hits: 621

Developer Edition Update

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Written by Karl vom Dorff

I recently checked out Haiku's source and wanted to build Haiku under Haiku. In order to do this, you need to download the build tool's source; size = 792mb. Then, download Haiku's source; size = 843.6mb. This took me three hours to checkout!

Next, build the build tools, and then build Haiku. The entire process is quite lengthy...

Guess who has done all the dirty work, and made an entire development image containing pre-compiled build tools, and Haiku's trunk - your's truly lol. The funny part is, the entire Vmware disk image I've built weighs only 125mb! Using 7zip, it compressed a 2.6 gb image that much...

So to streamline and make the whole process more efficient/easy, use Firefox, and an add-on like dta. On my 5mbit cable connection, I can download the disk image containing Haiku's entire trunk, pre-built build tools on a 10gb Vmware disk image in <5 min!! Once downloaded, fire up a terminal and 'sync up' to synchronize sources. This should make developing for Haiku in a VM a lot easier/quicker...

~~Here it is~~

*All packages have been removed because of violation of Haiku's distro license. Sorry.

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Info Popper Haiku

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Written by Karl vom Dorff

Haiku's Italian user group has reported that Andrea Anzani is working on 'Info Popper' for Haiku. Zeta users will recall a similar utility that popped up information for programs that supported it (i.e network information, system information such as device attachment, playlist support for media player etc.). There's not too much information at this point, or if there are any releases, but there is a nice screenshot:

*Update: Andrea writes us that Info Popper shown below is a recompiled version (with minor adjustments) of the info popper in the IM_Kit. It will be based on this code and developed further. You can follow its progress and release here.

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Developer Vmware Image Available

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Written by Karl vom Dorff
I've made a developer image available, I hope some of you find it useful! Add Comment (2) Hits: 553

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