during cleaning up the last things of my movement I found my archived boxes which I used to run BeOS. One is a Pentium 3 600MHz and the other one an Abit BP6 dual Celeron. Both boxes still boot up BeOS R5 and so I made a trip to the past
Remembering the past I visited Haiku again after years checking for progress and decided to use a nightly on my two boxes. Sadly to say both refuse to work here. While the P3 wonât boot (canât find OS, I will check this later, probably me doing stupid things on the HDD), the dual Celeron is only able to boot with activated safe mode (disable IDE DMA).
I also tried Haiku on my I7 and it ran without issues there. So maybe I get involved into Haiku in the future! To the developers: Really great work!!
But I still have some questions (sorry for the newbie questions, but it is so long agoâŚ):
Shall I issue a bug report about the IDE DMA thing? I mean Intel BX440 chipset is really old, does this still bother someone?
And coming from the Mac, is there something like Growl (notification system for Applications), an Application Launcher like Quicksilver, Bonjour Network support or a CUPS port?
How do you share files between BeOS/Haiku/OS X or Windows? Samba shares?
What is the best way to partition a disk drive? I mean I have a 320GB drive lying around for Haiku only. Does it make sense to make more than one volume? Can I configure Haiku Depot to install the packages to another volume?
IDE DMA: if it matters to you, we should try to fix it. The problem would be finding one developer with the right hardware to test this (old motherboard, yet enough RAM to run Haiku).
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Ok, but either I can provide the necessary debug logs and tests, or I can borrow/donate the hardware.
Oh, great. Then I will experiment with notify, Quicklaunch and NFS and see how it works.
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Haiku Depot cannot easily install packages to another volume than the system one. The usual way to work (for me, at least), is a rather small system partition (5GB or so should be enough) and one or more âdataâ partitions. I used only one data partition until recently, but I had some filesystem corruption on it and lost a lot of data at once, so now I think having multiple partitions is a better choice.[/quote]
I see, but for what use is then the data volume? Really just for data? And all Applications are on the system partition? Can I move the home folder to an other volume using symbolic links?
That would be a startâŚ
IDE DMA: if it matters to you, we should try to fix it. The problem would be finding one developer with the right hardware to test this (old motherboard, yet enough RAM to run Haiku).
There is a notification server, apps can use the BNotification class to communicate with it, and you can also play with it using the "notify" command from the shell. It is not as full-featured as Growl yet, but, that's the plan. It comes built-in with the system.
I don't know about Quicksilver replacements, it looks like you would need several different tools to do everything in Haiku. Maybe quicklaunch would be a starting point?
For sharing files, we have NFS4 support.
Haiku Depot cannot easily install packages to another volume than the system one. The usual way to work (for me, at least), is a rather small system partition (5GB or so should be enough) and one or more "data" partitions. I used only one data partition until recently, but I had some filesystem corruption on it and lost a lot of data at once, so now I think having multiple partitions is a better choice.
There is a notification server, apps can use the BNotification class to communicate with it, and you can also play with it using the ânotifyâ command from the shell. It is not as full-featured as Growl yet, but, thatâs the plan. It comes built-in with the system.[/quote]
Adrien, is there any documentation on this feature? The ânotifyâ command seems to behave as its help text advertises, but the âNotificationsâ Preference doesnât seem to do much of anything. Its âNotificationsâ panel seems to have no way of adding anything, and it doesnât show any use of notify. Doesnât seem to create a settings entry either.
As I mentionned, we are still far from a complete implementation of something similar to Growl. Part of the work still to be done is making the preferences panel do everything it advertises (currently it will only allow to select the position and size of the notification panel).
There is not even documentation of the BNotification class which can be used by apps wanting to submit notification: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/headers/os/app/Notification.h. There is also no support for notification history, filtering of notification from some apps, etc. This is still only early work on notification support, and should be completed to make it more useful.
Yes, I use the data volume just for data: music, source code, pictures, etc. While it could be possible to use symbolic links to make the home directory point to it, there are some tricks needed to achieve this, because the home directory contains some system settings, and these are used early in the boot process, before the other volumes are mounted.
