A couple of times, I have told the world that "Hello World" Creative was about creating a more perfect world. Well, in the first step twards doing so, I have created The Overman Files. The purpose of The Overman files is none other then to convert people (albiet more self-knowing people then others) into Supermen (also known as Uberhuman and Overhuman). I have put it in my "Everything Else" Categlory, and because I am bad at using Mambo, You have to go though that in order to read the articles within. That means ignoring the other articles, but there isn't any other articles in there anyways.
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Friday, July 14, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
HAIKU ROCKS THE MODERN WORLD!!!!!
I know I havn't posted on this blog for a while, but I've been busy. Extremely. First off, I ust finished the pushoff for HelloWorldCreative.com, and second off, I'm in Upward Bound SRP. That's where we all stay in the collage dorms and do nothing all day, but get punished if we don't do it in the right way.
But that's not what this article is about.
HAIKU IS AWESOME!!!!!
There's no use hiding it any more. After five years of development, Haiku is somewhat usable. Here is the documentation of my experiances.
VMware-ing.
Possibly the hardest thing to do in the world. You see, I don't have the resources to actually install a system. It takes too much time becauase you would have to compile the entire sources. So I just downloaded the Hard Disk Image (July 5 build). But unfortunately for me, you get it in the .image (RAW) Format. So I had to do a very difficult string of events. First I had to download and install qemu, then use qemu-img to convert the image into vmdk (VMware Hard Disk) format, than download and install the VMware server edition, create a new Virtual Machine, Change Hard Disk images, Uninstall VMware Server, Install VMware player, Run the new vmx file through that, and hope that it works.
Lucky me, it worked!
The KDEBUG of Death.
Unfortunately for me, on the first boot, I ran into certain problems with the kernel. Luckally for me, all I had to do was type in the phrase 'es', and it worked from the boot period on to any of the next boots.
The Blue Screen of Life.
Most definately, Haiku is the future of Open-source Desktop Operating Systems.
When Haiku first starts, you'll find a nice blue desktop and an open terminal. (Yes, the desktop is more blue than Windows' desktops.) The terminal is exactly what you'd expect from a POSIX system. It even uses the framiliar BASH Shell, just like BeOS before it.
The Idea to make a BeOS clone was probibly the best Idea ever. First, you have the support of all of the source and binary applications that worked in R5 or earlier; second, you have one of the best design philosophy set in the history of Desktop Operating Systems; third, Since it's developed under the GPL, Source Code is available so you'll be able to compile the entire operating system from the ground up for a custom fit for your computer - giving you a PC faster then even linux, possibly!
BeOS has a history of amazing concepts and amazingly fast rendering, but Haiku has taken that to the next step. Even though I had run it through a Virtual Machine, the system had run at speeds even higher then BeOS R5! Haiku had even managed to make a superior Bitmap-draw function! Haiku had develped a test program that had demonstrated the amazing abilities of their bitmap-draw, and it supported anything imaginable. When you streched the video, the artifacts were still there; However, even though the picture was 10 times larger, the picture still looked recognizable.
And of course, there is the jewel of the system; Symetric Multiprocessing. There are so many things you can do in Haiku, the list is staggering. If you search BeShare, you'll eventually come across a BeOS R4 introduction film made by Be, Inc. That is the perfect example of how nice this system is. They had a simple system with 2 low speed processors in it, and it ran each and every program - several videos, OpenGL Teapots, more videos, but attached to a rotating 3D cube, video caputre (I think they were watching Ren and Stimpy), as well as surfing the web. They had opened the program "pulse" to measure the usage of the processors to show how much one could do with SMP. They even used the disable function to show how everything works without needing to stop. The lack of restart times (as well as the increadibly low boot times) are what BeOS is famous for.
And, of course, my favorate feature of Haiku is the fact that it is a real-time OS.
But with every good feature that Haiku already has, there are a few negative points. For instance, Networking and the Media_server (as well as the Media_addon_server) don't work. But that's definately going to change. Perhaps the stregnth of Haiku is the fact that it is developed component at a time. The MIDI and Kernel are already in Beta phase.
What's next? Well, after the release of Haiku R1, the people running Haiku are going to start on the Glass Elevator Project. The Glass Elevator is BeOS R6. It's the way that Be, inc. would have made their OS if they were making it today.
In summary, HAIKU POWNS YOU!
But that's not what this article is about.
HAIKU IS AWESOME!!!!!
There's no use hiding it any more. After five years of development, Haiku is somewhat usable. Here is the documentation of my experiances.
VMware-ing.
Possibly the hardest thing to do in the world. You see, I don't have the resources to actually install a system. It takes too much time becauase you would have to compile the entire sources. So I just downloaded the Hard Disk Image (July 5 build). But unfortunately for me, you get it in the .image (RAW) Format. So I had to do a very difficult string of events. First I had to download and install qemu, then use qemu-img to convert the image into vmdk (VMware Hard Disk) format, than download and install the VMware server edition, create a new Virtual Machine, Change Hard Disk images, Uninstall VMware Server, Install VMware player, Run the new vmx file through that, and hope that it works.
Lucky me, it worked!
The KDEBUG of Death.
Unfortunately for me, on the first boot, I ran into certain problems with the kernel. Luckally for me, all I had to do was type in the phrase 'es', and it worked from the boot period on to any of the next boots.
The Blue Screen of Life.
Most definately, Haiku is the future of Open-source Desktop Operating Systems.
When Haiku first starts, you'll find a nice blue desktop and an open terminal. (Yes, the desktop is more blue than Windows' desktops.) The terminal is exactly what you'd expect from a POSIX system. It even uses the framiliar BASH Shell, just like BeOS before it.
The Idea to make a BeOS clone was probibly the best Idea ever. First, you have the support of all of the source and binary applications that worked in R5 or earlier; second, you have one of the best design philosophy set in the history of Desktop Operating Systems; third, Since it's developed under the GPL, Source Code is available so you'll be able to compile the entire operating system from the ground up for a custom fit for your computer - giving you a PC faster then even linux, possibly!
BeOS has a history of amazing concepts and amazingly fast rendering, but Haiku has taken that to the next step. Even though I had run it through a Virtual Machine, the system had run at speeds even higher then BeOS R5! Haiku had even managed to make a superior Bitmap-draw function! Haiku had develped a test program that had demonstrated the amazing abilities of their bitmap-draw, and it supported anything imaginable. When you streched the video, the artifacts were still there; However, even though the picture was 10 times larger, the picture still looked recognizable.
And of course, there is the jewel of the system; Symetric Multiprocessing. There are so many things you can do in Haiku, the list is staggering. If you search BeShare, you'll eventually come across a BeOS R4 introduction film made by Be, Inc. That is the perfect example of how nice this system is. They had a simple system with 2 low speed processors in it, and it ran each and every program - several videos, OpenGL Teapots, more videos, but attached to a rotating 3D cube, video caputre (I think they were watching Ren and Stimpy), as well as surfing the web. They had opened the program "pulse" to measure the usage of the processors to show how much one could do with SMP. They even used the disable function to show how everything works without needing to stop. The lack of restart times (as well as the increadibly low boot times) are what BeOS is famous for.
And, of course, my favorate feature of Haiku is the fact that it is a real-time OS.
But with every good feature that Haiku already has, there are a few negative points. For instance, Networking and the Media_server (as well as the Media_addon_server) don't work. But that's definately going to change. Perhaps the stregnth of Haiku is the fact that it is developed component at a time. The MIDI and Kernel are already in Beta phase.
What's next? Well, after the release of Haiku R1, the people running Haiku are going to start on the Glass Elevator Project. The Glass Elevator is BeOS R6. It's the way that Be, inc. would have made their OS if they were making it today.
In summary, HAIKU POWNS YOU!
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