What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? François Revol LCIS – CTSYS Team LIG – ADELE Team 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 1/14 Introduction ● Free Software Operating System ● MIT licensed ● Lightweight ● Desktop oriented ● Inspired by BeOS – Binary compatible for R1 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 2/14 Releases ● Project birth 2001 ● R1/alpha1 2009-09-14 ● R1/alpha2 2010-05-09 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 3/14 Improvements ● ● Performance ● USB mass storage ● Lock contentions Bug fixes ● Network ● Better POSIX conformance ● ACPI enabled by default ● Bash updated to 4.x 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 4/14 Message Signaled Interrupt ● No more IRQ count limitations = No more IRQ sharing ● Simpler to implement than PCI IRQ routing 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 5/14 Locale Kit Integration ● Native API ● Done as part of Google Summer of Code ● Applications still being localized ● New languages added every day 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 6/14 Wifi stack with WEP ● ● ● Done as part of a Master Thesis FreeBSD 8 emulation layer allows porting drivers easily as with ethernet Allows installing binary firmwares 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 7/14 Anyboot Image ● BFS partition with ISO header ● Boots from both CD or disk 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 8/14 WebPositive ● WebKit based native browser ● Lighter than Firefox ● Native bookmarks ● 0-byte files with attributes 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 9/14 Still Missing ● Java ● ● OpenOffice.org ● th Official OpenJDK support OOo4Kids port started ● Gallium3D ● Firefox 3 (needs Cairo, …) ● Ports to PPC, ARM… (in progress) ● Package manager ● installoptionalpackage What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? 11 Libre Software Meeting Bordeaux - 07/09/10 10/14 Not Really Missing ● Flash™ ● Flash ∩ Web = Ø ● Gnash almost works (needs gcc4) ● OpenOffice.org ● Firefox 3 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 11/14 Where Do I Get It? ● ● http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku ● Images for QEMU, Vmware, VirtualBox… ● Anyboot Images (ISO & USB) CafePress ● Commemorative CD – – 20$ (15$ for the project) Silk Printed 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 12/14 Oh, One More Thing #define B_HAIKU_VERSION B_HAIKU_VERSION_1_ALPHA_2 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 13/14 To Be continued. 11th Libre Software Meeting What’s new in Haiku R1/alpha2 ? Bordeaux - 07/09/10 14/14
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