It was a rather ominous start to the day with fog covering most of the city early in the morning, but thankfully it turned out to be a great day both weather wise and for the Sixth Annual Haiku Down Under Users and Developer’s (Virtual) Conference held at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia on 18th August, 2013.
The live feed was provided using the Flash-based UStream service once again and we apologise for those who couldn’t follow along. We keep waiting for some better technology to be made available to do the stream and is also open source and Haiku friendly. One day.
Although I have been a lazy blogger lately we haven't been lazy working on our remaining tasks at all. So, unsurprisingly, since my previous post we have reached and passed a few nice milestones. The latest one is that we're finally able to build the gcc2/gcc4 hybrid Haiku images again, including all the software needed for the official release.
This time around, we only have one or two new features to cover as such, since most of my time recently has been spent under the hood.
UPDATE: Goal reached - thanks for stepping up and helping out everyone! Feel free to donate toward next year's costs though :)
A few days ago, Haikuware (and BeBits) finally came back from a somewhat lengthy outage. Several of you may have noticed the news article that was posted when the site came back online.
This year, the RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) / LSM (Libre Software Meeting) were held in Brussels, in the very same place where FOSDEM is held every year, although not by the same team.
Before writing a full RMLL 2013 report on the way home, I just wanted to say that I mentionned Haiku in a question about hardware specifications at the European Parliament on tuesday during a JURI commission workshop : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/fr/committees/video?event=20130709-1530-COMMITTEE-JURI (it’s at the end, 2nd question after the 2nd panel)
We’re getting famous ;-)
Intro
In the last year i managed to play a bit more with the Haiku media_kit. It was already discussed in various places if jack2 should be adopted, ported, or someway integrated into Haiku. There are various opinions out there, and more or less going down into the topic i want to show you what i think about.
Jack2 is a real-time audio server for UNIX systems, to be more specifical a smp focused reimplementation of Jack (which is single-threaded), it provides a protocol used by audio apps for inter-communication.
Some time has passed since my last post on the subject, and I keep finding time to work on it, so I thought another update on Debugger progress might be of interest. Most of the features added since my previous post are fairly minor, but should hopefully be interesting/useful nonetheless.
The end of my first two-man-months contract has been reached, but I’ll be diving right into the next 160 hours of working on package management. So, first of all: a big thank you to all the donors out there!
My new contract has now officially started. At the moment it looks like its duration will be at least three months. A big thanks to everyone who donated to make that possible!
