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