{"id":1788,"date":"2009-09-16T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2009-09-16T21:43:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T04:43:21","slug":"fate-of-beos-and-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/fate-of-beos-and-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"FATE of BeOS and Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, all the way back in 1998, I remember downloading a demo version of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BeOS\">BeOS<\/a> on some kind of live HD partition hosted under Windows. I booted into it twice and couldn&#8217;t find a good reason to do it a third time. However, there is that bustling community of developers developing the clone of BeOS named Haiku. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/open-source\/news\/2009\/09\/hands-on-with-haiku-back-to-the-future-of-beos.ars\">This article at Ars Technica<\/a> leads me to believe that the Haiku OS has reached some kind of development milestone (R1 alpha1).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this all reminds me that <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> does have 1 or 2 developers who like to make sure that the application still builds and runs on Haiku. But are there any takers for running <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/\">FATE<\/a> continuously on Haiku? I installed the ISO image in a VMware session but was unable to connect to a network. I&#8217;m a little surprised Haiku doesn&#8217;t at least support the VMware network device (or does it? Perhaps I need to manually configure it somehow).<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/haiku-terminal.png\" alt=\"Haiku terminal and logo\" title=\"Haiku terminal and logo\" width=\"608\" height=\"572\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/haiku-terminal.png 608w, https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/haiku-terminal-300x282.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think I may finally understand the compelling reason to continue supporting gcc 2.95 in FFmpeg: that&#8217;s the default one installed in BeOS. This strikes me as odd since BeOS was alleged to be based largely on C++ and gcc&#8217;s C++ language support as of 2.95 was known to be less than stellar. Perhaps the OS builders simply limited themselves to a sane subset of the language which could conceivably make Be programming halfway tolerable.<\/p>\n<p>For my part, I&#8217;m wondering how to program Haiku\/Be in the first place. Haiku is supposed to reimplement Be&#8217;s C++ API, but where is that defined? Is <a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/beosprog\/book\/\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s online Be programming book<\/a> the last word on the matter? I should check my boxes and see if I still have a giant book of Be that a friend gave me a long time ago for no good reason. He must have gotten the impression I was interested in hacking operating systems or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any volunteers to run FATE continuously on Haiku?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fate-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}