Haikuware News

A little over half a year after their initial Alpha release, Haiku Inc. has released their second Alpha. 

Congratulations to all the developers and volunteers that have worked so hard to bring us these results!

What are you waiting for?? Download Haiku Alpha 2.

It's been a while since I had a good rant. The comments below were in response to a forum thread about missing libraries under Haiku.

" I don't think you can blame Haiku if a 3rd party app doesn't include all needed libs or doesn't mention the needed libs. Of course a reason for that is that most of them aren't maintained anymore and were just grabbed and put up at Haikuware."

The frequent posts by users about why their applications (native or BeOS) won't work under Haiku sickens me. It's really a very simple solution. I outline my thoughts:

I've replaced the chat client here on our website with an Ajax chat client implementation. The last client on the site here was a clunky Java version that took too long to load, and of course wouldn't work under Haiku. Problem solved! It'll connect to #haiku & #haikuware once you select a username.

I've recently been scouring Haiku's sources, and according to the driver's sources and FreeBSD man pages, have been adding supported devices into the hardware database here - there are now over 650 entries! I've completely gone through the bluetooth, video and network drivers.

In the end I got a little lazy, which is why you see more wireless network devices than wired in the database. Reason being, for most of the FreeBSD ported drivers, I added the supported devices from the man pages into the listing's description.... i.e: