Haikuware News

Some interesting developments at the Haiku Mailing List. Hamish Morrison has been working on porting OpenJDK to Haiku over the last several months and has parts compiling and working 

the virtual machine port is complete (apart from the serviceability agent), and the simpler parts of the class library, like networking, IO, etc, are all ported, except in a couple of places where functionality is missing on the Haiku end.

Ciprian Nedisan mailed me the other day requesting the bounty funds for his document viewer. Donations have been stagnant, and Ciprian has done a fair bit of work for ~$200 USD - I didn't think this was unreasonable - most features BePDF had (and lots that it didn't have) have been implemented. His reasoning is as follows: 

It took quite a while, and after emailing lots of developers, we finally have someone to take on the Gallium Bounty! Who? The same developer working on Haiku's ATI/AMD driver - Alexander von Gluck (kallisti5). 

Gallium 3D has been part of Mesa since 2009. In August 2011 however, Mesa removed BeOS support . Alexander sent a mail to Mesa's mailing list asking if they'd accept patches from Haiku- this was accepted/confirmed (he even sent the first patch). 

At Haiku's webpage, Michael Lotz (mmlr), updates us on his work for Haiku Inc. after one month. An interesting read. Also, Dewey Taylor (Duggan) talks about his work on Haiku's scheduler.