Talk:Haiku (operating system)

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[edit] Donating

I can't really figure out how to add a whole new category on here, so hopefully someone will read this and add/integrate it into the Wiki.

I'd like to add this information, under the header Donating:

Since the work done by Haiku developers is done in their free time, and on their own hardware, several options exist to compensate Haiku developers (at least partially) for their work, or to help Haiku Inc. with administrative, marketing and miscellaneous expenses. Currently, there are three ways to contribute to Haiku.

1) Donating to 'Haiku code bounties': Haiku bounties aims to gather funds to target the completion of a specific part of the OS to be completed.

2) Donating directly to Haiku: will leave it up to the administration at Haiku to best decide how to make use of your donations. This is useful if you can't decide which bounty to donate to, or simply don't like the bounty choices.

3) The Dedicated Hardware Fund: seeks to accept donations that will be used to buy a particular piece of hardware that a developer at Haiku requests.

thnx, Karl

Wikipedia isn't an advertising service. I know it's for a good cause, but it's not really appropriate. I will add a link to your site though, as it is related, but I don't think any more than a link is really suitable. Also, could you stop hotlinking the images? It's not cool, just use mirror it with Imageshack or something. I like what you're doing though, it's a great initiative. :) --Hn 01:13, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

None of the above are commercial enterprises here, and are in no way using Wikipedia to advertise or exploit it in anyway. They are for Haiku's benefit, not my own personal gain or anyone else's personal or business venture.

I think there is a misunderstanding of how important the above are to Haiku and how appropriate they infact are. A short paragraph that briefly explains what and how one can help Haiku with the above initiatives wouldn't hurt, and would certainly do more justice than a link.

I have to agree with Hn here, I know what HaikuBounties is trying to do, but we need to keep the Wikipedia entry solely as an information point. If you'd like a bigger feature on the Haiku Wiki, we can look at that ;) As for now, the link that Hn added is within reason. --[Beta] 21:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

In far too many places reads almost like a Haiku advert. NicM 00:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] GCC Age as of 2007

I have updated the section that speaks to gcc being 5 years old as of 2005. I have updated that to 2007, which is in fact 6 years old because of the march release of gcc 2.95.3. The best source I have is http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html . Upon Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates I have come up with this:

the GCC team, GCC Relases - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF), [[{{{publisher}}}]], [[{{{date}}}]].

Which is by no means complete, but I can't figure out exactly how to put this properly into the article.

jptdrake 19:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Solved: Used [1] and a cite web template.

jptdrake 04:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Milestones

Just FYI: I compiled a rather complete list of the most important milestones in the German article. All the cited references are in English. --KAMiKAZOW 18:17, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Open jdk Progress

Java on Haiku now that would be cool! http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2008-01-21/openjdk_porters_group_votes_to_sponsor_java_port_to_haiku

http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2008-01-03/new_java_for_haiku_team_formed worth to be mentioned under progress?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.162.248.137 (talk) 21:00, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

  • IMO, as long as there’s no OpenJDK source code actually ported to Haiku, it’s just vaporware and not worth mentioning. --KAMiKAZOW (talk) 00:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Actually there is progress already made, as the people who were porting java to BeOS when java was under more restrictive licensing had demos of java (and swing, its gui toolkit) already running. The same people that did this port are heading up the OpenJDK effort, and seeing as they have substantial knowledge of how to go about doing this, I think it merits some mention. Its not vaporware. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.160.174 (talk) 05:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)