NetLock Monitor 2.0

Oakbits have released the latest version of their NetLock Monitor, an application that lets you control which apps can't access the net.


Unfortunately, it's Zeta only, but for Zeta users, it's good stuff.

REminiscence (aka Flashback) Released !

Back in 1992, Delphine software wrote some of the coolest games for the Amiga, and one of the Flashback, is now available for the BeOS platform.


Now, we just need Another World to be ported and I'll be in Amiga-Game-Heaven.

Merry Christmas !

No we're not dead, just very quiet ... but we're still wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

And what better way to spent Christmas, than with a new version of Jukebox by J M Reis. This update contains a ton of updates and is definitely one of my fav media apps on BeOS/Haiku.

OzHUG Haiku Distro

I thought I'd kick off discussions of the OzHUG distribution of Haiku, which we will be hosted and supported by ourselves.

The name of our distro is yet to be decided, but at present it is going by the moniker, Haiku - OzHUG Edition.

The main goals of our distribution are:-
* to be English (Australia) Language-based distro
* to include apps that compliment and enhance the User Experience but not so much as to cause "bloat"

All decisions will be via private member polls and online polls. The online polls will have less weighting but this is still your chance to have a say.

Happy Easter Edition of Haiku

"This was created from Build 20610 and has been tested as working. Networking is still very basic, so don't expect too much just yet. Hopefully, the GSoC will add a lot of more stability and functionality to our beloved OS.

Until then, click here for VMWare's Free Player and click here for the Haiku image."

Haiku Tech Talk at Google

According to the Haiku site, the guys have reported that the event was a success.

"Yesterday was our big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project."

Merry Christmas from OzHUG

Merry Christmas to all from OzHUG - Have a Happy Haiku New Year !

2006 has certainly been an interesting year for Haiku. It has overcome quite a few milestones, one only needs look at the WalterCon videos to see evidence of that.

With that in mind, 2007 is going to be bigger and better, so stay tuned at OzHUG, your Australian (Asia-Pacific) Haiku User Group.

WalterCon 2006

"WalterCon 2006 was held this past weekend in Orlando, Florida, and for those who have been waiting to know what it was all about, the wait is over.

Jem Matzan of The Jem Report was at WalterCon, and he has written an interesting article on the conference that gives an overview of the event, and also makes some insightful observations as someone new to the project and the platform."


Links
Official WalterCon Site
"Haiku Rocks" - Video - YouTube
"Haiku Rocks" - Video - Google Video
"Haiku Rocks" - Video - 54mb (Torrent)

WalterCon 2006 - Intro - YouTube

WalterCon 2006 - Intro - Google Video
WalterCon 2006 - Intro - 9.9mb (Torrent)

WalterCon 2006 - Michael Phipps - Google Video
WalterCon 2006 - Michael Phipps - 56mb (Torrent)

Happy Birthday Haiku

The Haiku OS project turns 5 today. Back in August 2001, Michael Phipps "founded" the open source replacement for BeOS, called OpenBeOS, on the mailing list.

In 2004, the name was changed, in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks (now owners of BeOS). The new name was influenced by an official community vote and was then revealed at WalterCon, the US-based Haiku annual conference.

Five years on and Haiku now boots on real hardware to an accelerated desktop. It can run many R5 applications, has a network stack in post-alpha (soon to be beta), and can performed tasks via USB that R5 could only dream of. It's stability increases week by week and should be capable of replacing R5 and going beyond in the not too distant future.

HaikuFox Theme 0.4.3

tigerdog has updated his excellent Firefox theme, HaikuFox to version 0.4.3.

You can get it from the Bebits link above or via Firefox's Update features.