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"With many recent stability fixes and other improvements by Michael Lotz (mmlr) as well as others - he was able to finally nail down a couple last minor tweaks that allowed him to checkout the Haiku source from the SVN repository, compile a raw Haiku image, and test it in QEMU entirely from his Haiku install. This is the first time ever that Haiku has reportedly 'self-hosted', an unofficial important requirement for an alpha release. Please note that there are a few technicalities to be ironed out before the process can be easily reproduced by all. Update: Please note that Haiku won't be taking over the world just yet."

Source: OSNews

DaaT also posted an article about this on IsComputerOn .  Below is a snippet.

"Step by step, inch by inch, Haiku is getting closer being fully self hosted. Last night (and into this morning), Michael Lotz managed to check out the Haiku tree, then compile the Haiku image and finally boot it under QEMU, all of this from Haiku itself. There are still problems of course, like memory leaks, etc, but this marks an important step in the Haiku trip (not that kind of trip)."

At the Southern California Linux Expo this past weekend, Google engineer and open-source software developer Bruno de Albuquerque gave a presentation about Haiku, a project devoted to creating an open-source clone of BeOS.

When desktop computing was first beginning its rapid climb towards ubiquity, a little company called Be developed what its users believed was one of the best desktop operating systems of its time. BeOS featured a unique modular microkernel, a revolutionary 64-bit journaling filesystem with database-like indexing and querying capabilities, support for preemptive multitasking, pervasive multithreading, and unrivaled clarity of design. Unfortunately, BeOS never gained mainstream traction and faded into obscurity.

Source: ArsTechnica  

It has been several months since we announced the departure of project founder Michael Phipps from Haiku and the transition period that ensued for Haiku Inc. This is an attempt to give the community a most probably long awaited update on where we stand today, what has been done so far and what remains to be done to bring the Haiku Inc. transition to a successful conclusion.

Source: Haiku Website  

"The 27th February, OS/2 World Foundation will gather for its Annual Meeting 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Annual dues (100 SEK) are collected and the board of directors is elected. If you're interested in running for the board, please volunteer by contacting Björn Söderström.

Still, as always, it will be foremost your active participation, the contribution of our foundation members and site members that will give us guidance on what and where to put our efforts.

With best regards,"

-- Kim Haverblad; OS2World.com

Thanks to piggy from eComStation.org for letting me steal yet another article ;)

SCALE interviews Bruno G. Albuquerque (BGA) and Jorge Mare (Kokito) of the Haiku project. Haiku will be exhibiting and speaking at the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo. SCALE 6x will be held Feb 8 -10 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. The interview is a tad bit annoying to read due to the (lack of) formatting, but you'll get through it.

Source: OSNews

Read the interview here

Contrary to all that is being said on the net, it clearly looks like Microsoft is NOT planning to release Windows 7 in 2009. Microsoft's official response, by an Email dated 26th January, 2008, to WinVistaClub states that Windows 7 is still in the planning stage and will take approximately 3 years to develop.

Source: WinVistaClub

A new website to encourage teamwork in RISC OS software projects has launched this week. The RISC OS Connect online skills database allows punters to list their various abilities, from programming to documentation writing, and declare how much free time they can spare a week. Ideally, people looking for someone with a particular skill or experience for a project can then find their man, or woman, in the database and drop them an email to request their assistance.

Source: Drobe Launchpad  

A new version of WinAROS is available. The virtual Harddisk is contains two partitions. A 20MB Partition with Fast File System (FFS), that contains only the Boot Files. And a 480MB Partition with Smart File System (SFS) that contains a fresh AROS setup.

Source: Amigaworld.net  

Andrea Anzani has continued his work with porting WebKit to Haiku, and has since last time ICO wrote about his ongoing work, been troubleshooting image rendering. He ended up writing a special image-decoder that makes use of Haiku's translator add-ons for PNG and JPG. For GIF he had to choose another way, as GIFs can be animated and Haiku's GIF translator has no support for animation.

Source: IsComputerOn