Haiku Beta 3

Media Release: The Haiku Project Celebrates the Release of Beta 3

THE HAIKU PROJECT CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF BETA 3
Poetry is in motion. The Haiku Project, its developers and team members announced the Haiku operating system released its third beta release, version R1/Beta3, July 25th, 2021. Version R1B3 continues the trend of more frequent releases to provide users and developers with an up to date and stable platform to work on.

This release combines the best of Haiku’s history as a spiritual successor of BeOS and the hard work of a passionate community. It provides several new features and performance improvements that make Haiku even better.

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Additional improvements include:

A better installation process, with various fixes to the disk partitioner (DriveSetup GUI) to make the process easier and go more smoothly.
Improved hardware drivers, with a focus on:
improvements to Wi-Fi networking to match FreeBSD 13
audio drivers, mass storage, USB
performance on NVIDIA graphics cards (GeForce 6200-GeForce Go 6400).
Significantly improved WebPositive stability and compatibility.
Software updates can now be resumed in case of network issues.
New and updated ports of various software, including deprecating Python 2 and making Python 3 the default version installed
Greater POSIX compatibility
Numerous bug fixes.

Link: www.haiku-os.org

LibreOffice ist schon eine nette Sache! Leider haben's noch immer keinen gscheiten FTP Client mit TLS/SSL Support (Achtung: Ich meine nicht SFTP!). Hab' die Beta 3 nur kurz ausprobiert um zu schauen ob ein Softwarepackerl das ich Mal als "Haiku-kompatibel" released habe noch rennt.

Das mit'm FTP gehört zu den paar Sachen die ich immer noch brauchen würde, damit's Mal nativ auf einem Notebook landen kann.

Wie ist der Zustand bzgl. Mailclients? Das war ja irgendwie auch mehr Krampf als sonst was, und da ging auch kein TLS bei meinen letzten Experimenten...

mit email und ftp habe ich unter haiku ehrlich gesagt noch nichts gemacht.
da muss ich am wochenende einmal nachsehen.

aber es gibt eine andere nette entwicklung:

Haiku OS Managing To Run Zink OpenGL Atop Radeon Vulkan Driver For 3D Acceleration - Phoronix

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Last month we reported on progress for porting the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver to Haiku, the BeOS-inspired open-source operating system. Now in ending out November they not only have RADV running but also working with Gallium3D's Zink for offering OpenGL acceleration over Vulkan.

Haiku developer "X512" has been the one devoted to this recent effort for getting the open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver running on this platform. With some modifications he has been successful in enabling the RADV driver to work on Haiku for 3D hardware acceleration.

Link: www.phoronix.com

es hat sich wieder was getan!

angefangen hat es damit, dass es fortschritte bei der implementierung von X11 gegeben hat:

Xlibe: an Xlib/X11 compatibility layer for Haiku

Everyone seems to be doing “progress threads” these days, so I figured I’d join the fun. And now I have something that seems uniquely suited to such a thread.

To begin with, there was a note I made in my last progress report, about the potentiality of writing an “Xlib compatibility layer”, that is, an implementation of the X11 APIs without an X11 server…

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So, I wondered if we might be able to do something similar on Haiku, in order to port X11 applications (or even entire toolkits…) without writing separate “native” backends for each and every one, and also without running an entire X11 server in the background. After some experimentation, I think this is indeed more than feasible, though we’ll see how far I manage to take it and how quickly…

Some of you have already picked up on this (or seen my intermittent ramblings in IRC about it) and noticed the repository that has shown up in my GitHub account, now called “xlibe” 77. After only about two weeks and change of development, it already is quite sophisticated, and I expect it will continue to advance from here. More details in my next posts…

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I have fixed the redraw glitches (this was actually partially a problem in Haiku itself; I pushed some patches to Gerrit to resolve it), the hangs on mouse click events (the mouse now mostly works), and crashes on key events (however keyboard input does not work yet.) After a few other compatibility fixes, the “widgets” demo starts and displays largely correctly:

Link: discuss.haiku-os.org

My progress in porting Wine

The incorrect stride is very strange. Input not working is less strange, some applications are very finicky about how they deal with Xlib events, and I know that logic isn’t precisely correct just yet.

Link: discuss.haiku-os.org

HELP WANTED: Haiku R1/beta4 boot & hardware testing!

Hello everyone!

The first full builds from the Haiku R1/beta4 branch (currently in the “testing” phase so this is “Test Candidate 0”, not a Release Candidate yet) are available for x86_64 and x86_gcc2h:
r1b4_tc0 x86_64 (sha256: 56639feb29c6ad3a73c48e5ee2c3c83aa4bc70f9e70b16311a4c24c1eb4123d0)
r1b4_tc0 x86_gcc2h (sha256: 185396f09c0b96819cced6908edb89fb9fa83c80d032c334efe470fdcca23282)

If you have time, please test these on whatever hardware you have, in as many configurations as you can, and fill out this survey for each one (and of course, if you run into any bugs that you have not before, file tickets in addition to reporting it in that survey.)

Link: discuss.haiku-os.org

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