Haikuware News

Without any recompiling, Haiku is able to run an older version of the award winning graphics editor Pixel by Pavel Kranzelsberger!



It takes a few minor changes to get it working, and it's possible a bug in expander may have been found. If you'd like to run Pixel on Haiku, just read the instructions here. We'll include it on the next version of the superpack.

I contacted Pavel, and he helped me to get it running on Haiku. He said he'd try to compile the latest version for Haiku ;)

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.



 

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)

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 ;).