Haiku OpenJDK Progress Update

Posted by Michael Bartholomew on Mon, June 25th, 2012 at 8:47am EDT

The third Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, hamish, posted his quarter term update on implementing OpenJDK:

Since my last blog entry I have mostly completed the implementation of the AWT/Java2D port. It is still in need of a lot of testing, but it is stable enough to run a lot of Swing apps out of the box.

Haiku OpenJDK

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Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.

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Haiku cpuidle Progress Update

Posted by Michael Bartholomew on Sat, June 23rd, 2012 at 10:21am EDT

Another Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, yongcong, posted his quarter term update on implementing cpuidle.

Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.

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Haiku 64-bit Port Progress Update

Posted by Michael Bartholomew on Fri, June 22nd, 2012 at 12:13pm EDT

Alex (xyzzy), a Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, has posted a concise progress report about his efforts porting Haiku to the x86_64 architecture.

Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.

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Haiku Google Summer of Code Update

Posted by Michael Bartholomew on Sun, September 11th, 2011 at 1:31pm EDT

IsComputerOn has a great writeup on the evaluation of submissions for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) effort. From the article:

[…]the projects which passed evaluation were:

  • Mike Smith’s additions to VirtualBox™ are already meeting or exceeding usability expectations.
  • Nathan Heisey brought our support of SDL up to the version 1.3. Haiku is also really thankful for the collaboration we had from the SDL project having Ryan ‘icculus’ Gordon co-mentoring this project.
  • Gabriel Hartmann provided Haiku with a USB video driver for high-end webcams. His work has already found its way to Haiku’s source tree; while not perfect yet, it should prove to be a good starting point for incremental work onward.
  • Sean Healy’s project will enable 3rd party projects to access Be/Haiku’s API with other langages than C++, namely Python and Perl.

Please head on over and read the full writeup and congrats to Haiku and the student contributors!

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