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Written by Karl vom Dorff
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A follow-up to our article published last week about the bluetooth bounty.
Since the bluetooth bounty has been topped up to over a thousand dollars ($1066.61) by the other failed bounties, and there hasn't been many contributions, I asked Oliver if he'd consider accepting the current balance (along with the RAM donation he received). Oliver accepted this proposal, but as a compromise, asked that the deadline be extended to Nov. 2008 (he originally set a target of $2000 for the bounty and earlier deadline). The bounty is still open for donations until it's completed.
Some of the Phase 1 target has been completed, and Oliver plans on tackling the L2CAP module which hasn't been started. All of this together, and along with some tweaking of the stack, he plans to have it complete by November 2008.
 On a related note, the CUPS port bounty had a deadline of Feb 13th. 2008. This was the second self-proposed (by the developer) deadline. Similarly, the Webkit port missed its deadlines. This is unfortunate, and I would like to apologize on behalf of the developer to the bounty contributors. I've tried to contact Ithamar, but haven't gotten a response for almost a week now. All I can do, is offer a final deadline of March 1st. If the bounty isn't complete by then, the contributors will decide an appropriate fate for its holdings.
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Written by Karl vom Dorff
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Zebuntu...
Kind of sounds like a mixture of Zeta and Ubuntu, doesn't it?
Well that's precisely what it is. Already available as a 'Beta II' download. Mr. Korz (previously of Zeta OS and founder of Yellowtab) writes in his blog, that he has a development team working on a new operating system, Zebuntu, that will use Ubuntu along with XFCE as a desktop manager on a JFS filesystem.
Furthermore, a compatibility layer derived from the now dead BlueEyedOS project will ensure that BeOS, Zeta and in the future, Haiku applications, will run on Zebuntu.
Mr. Korz goes at length talking about the advantages of using Ubuntu as a base for this project. The obvious ones being superior hardware support, and big name applications like OpenOffice, Gimp and Firefox without the need for porting.
The project's goal:
'Unser Ziel ist es also, mittels B.E.OS eine neue Plattform für unsere alten ZETA Kunden zu schaffen. ZETA sowie BeOS und später auch Haiku Applikationen werden am Ende direkt unter Zebuntu laufen.'
Basic translation, is that the goal is to use B.E.O.S to develop a new platform for all of YellowTab's (Zeta's) previous customers. Zeta and BeOS applications, as well as Haiku applications later, will run directly under Zebuntu.
Well, I must say, this sounds like a good idea, if he can pull it off! I certainly don't know if the Zebuntu project will get much support from previous customers (such as myself). I kind of felt, how would I say, left hanging by the last project...
In any case, it's an interesting development and I know you're nosy, so go check it out!
:-p
"Zebuntu sagt Guten Tag" (German only)
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Written by Dennis d'Entremont
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The latest edition of the Haiku Podcast has been released with yours truely as a new co-host. Head on over to the site and have a listen!
It's the first podcast I've ever done so please go easy on me ;).
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Written by Karl vom Dorff
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Oliver (aka urnenfeld), recently gave us a brief update on the work he's doing bringing bluetooth to Haiku.
Here he shows a device manager/listener he's developed for the bluetooth server:
Read more on his blog.
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Written by Karl vom Dorff
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As you may know, the bounties listed on our website have a shelf life of six months. At the end of the six months, if no developers have applied, donors are given the option for a refund.
I have already emailed all the donors about this, and haven't gotten anything back yet. The email suggested that if no refunds are requested, we transfer the combined sum of the failed bounties into the bluetooth bounty (keep in mind, this is not a public decision, but those of bounty contributors). Donors could have made their own suggestions on what to do with the money, and I would add those into the question, and then we'd have a vote; or simply do nothing, and the bluetooth route would be followed. It also lists in the rules, that if no refunds are taken, 15% of the sum of the failed bounties will go towards the 'thank you award' fund.
As such, for the failed bounties: Drive Setup $240.94 + Bootman $227.33 + NDIS Wrapper $578.82 = $1047.09 - 15% = $890.03
A total of $890.03 would be forwarded to the bluetooth bounty, and $157.07 into the 'thank you award fund'.
We'll also move $33.08 from the general fund into the bluetooth bounty, which combined with the current bounty balance would make that bounty worth $1066.61. I've emailed Oliver and asked if he'd consider lowering the bounty, or accept the current balance. This will bring the bounty closer up to the top, and will help fund this developer's coding for important hardware support in Haiku.
I will give two more days to those who donated to the bounties to claim a refund, after which the above will be finalized.
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Written by Dennis d'Entremont
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I know I'm not the first to report this but there was an SVN commit made with the following comment.
"Well, that's all what I've come up with after a Haiku session with an uptime of more than 5 hours, compiling my first haiku-image under Haiku from a tree checked out under Haiku. I even tested that the image boots
and works using QEMU which I copied over from my BeOS partition (including using kqemu that was dropped in from there too and was simply picked up when starting QEMU)."
Click here for the full post.
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Written by Karl vom Dorff
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From a listing in our 'hardware wanted' donation board , Haiku developer Oliver Dorantes, aka 'urnenfeld ' (who is working on the bluetooth stack) recently received 256mb SDRAM for one of his development machines.
Thanks to Dennis for picking up on the entry and sending out the hardware to Spain.
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