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Written by TheNerd
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
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There has been some recent discussions surrounding an Alpha release of Haiku. Niels put together a mind map image of one of these discussions. Source: Haiku-OS.org
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Written by TheNerd
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch
which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches. Some of the highlights:
Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better. Results are from benchmarks used to analyze and improve system performance, results with your specific work load may vary.
Source: FreeBSD Mailing List
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 March 2008 )
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Written by TheNerd
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
It's been nearly a month since the creation of the Haiku port in the OpenJDK project.
In that time, not much has happened. Sadly.
Every single weekend thus far, I've been committed to doing something other than Haiku -- and I don't like it.
That said there has been some progress made.
- OpenJDK is readying support for our Mercurial access.
- Andrew recovered the data from his failed hard disk. This was his work toward merging some of the previous 1.4.2 port's work into early source releases of the OpenJDK.
- I've been drafting proposals to the OpenJDK Innovators' Challenge.
We'll see where this gets us.
Stay tuned. More to come in the next week.\
Bryan Varner's Blog
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 March 2008 )
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Written by TheNerd
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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RISC OS Open and Castle have today published a new batch of RISC OS source code on the riscosopen.org website for everyone to get their grubby mitts on. This third installment of code comes after the first load of software blueprints were released in May and a second barrage in October, last year.
The latest batch includes the messy insides of the RISC OS 5 USB system, various low-level hardware-related modules and a library for applications that use networks and the Internet. Source: Drobe Launchpad
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Written by TheNerd
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Here's a summary of the last 3 weeks in Haiku-land. Axel was off skiing for part of this period, but progress has continued apace (and Axel has still managed to make his way into almost all of my update sub-sections!).
Highlights include progress towards self-hosting, a new kernel allocator that is much faster and more scalable, improved VMware Image support in the build system, automatic syscall restarts, and the usual raft of bug fixes, stability updates and interface tweaks. Source: tangobravo's blog
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Written by TheNerd
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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"Heading towards to FOSDEM in Belgium the JNode team is proud to announce the release of JNode 0.2.6. JNode is a free, open source Java technology based OS (Operating System) written fully in Java language (with a very small assembler nano-kernel). This release features over 99 percent java 6 api compatibility, hotswapping, nfs, hfs+, even more openJDK integration, jetty6 and ofcourse bug fixes and improvements." Source: JNode Website
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Written by TheNerd
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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"Previously, we have presented one of the two opensource licensed projects related to creating a C# Kernel. Now it's the time to complete the set by rightfully presenting SharpOS , an effort to build a GPL version 3 + runtime exception licensed system, around a C# kernel of their own design. It is my pleasure and priviledge to host a set of questions and answers from four active developers of SharpOS , that is William Lahti, Bruce Markham, Mircea - Cristian Racasan and Sander van Rossen in order to get some insight into what they are doing with SharpOS, their goals, their different design and inspiration." Source
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Written by TheNerd
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
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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. Source: Haikuware.com
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Written by TheNerd
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
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Mozilla's Thunderbird open-source e-mail application has a new nest. David Ascher on Monday was CEO of MailCo, an organization with a placeholder name charged with Thunderbird's future development. Today, he is the CEO of Mozilla Messaging, the newest subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.
Mozilla Messaging begins with the proposition that e-mail is broken. The organization's goal is to fix it.
"E-mail and other forms of Internet communications present us with a paradox," Ascher said in a blog post on Tuesday. "The stunning proportion of our days spent communicating online clearly indicates that as a society, we are more intricately connected via the internet than ever before. ... Yet as the number of such interactions grows, and as the number of ways in which we interact grows, the joy that communication can bring is too often replaced by frustration, confusion, or stress. Furthermore, as we transmit more and more digital data, privacy and control questions become more and more troublesome." Source: Information Week Mozilla Messaging Website
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eComStation 1.1 Entry English Manual
The BeBook 4.5
