{"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":"

Once upon a time, all the way back in 1998, I remember downloading a demo version of BeOS<\/a> on some kind of live HD partition hosted under Windows. I booted into it twice and couldn’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. 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

Of course, this all reminds me that 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 FATE<\/a> continuously on Haiku? I installed the ISO image in a VMware session but was unable to connect to a network. I’m a little surprised Haiku doesn’t at least support the VMware network device (or does it? Perhaps I need to manually configure it somehow).<\/p>\n


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I think I may finally understand the compelling reason to continue supporting gcc 2.95 in FFmpeg: that’s the default one installed in BeOS. This strikes me as odd since BeOS was alleged to be based largely on C++ and gcc’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

For my part, I’m wondering how to program Haiku\/Be in the first place. Haiku is supposed to reimplement Be’s C++ API, but where is that defined? Is O’Reilly’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":"

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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t