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Johannes Wischert has made some excellent progress on the port of Haiku to the ARM processor.  You can read all about it here.  This is great!

I got a real kick out of this post on /.: “TechCrunch announced that they are planning to design their own $200 web tablet device. Quoting: ‘The idea is to turn it on, bypass any desktop interface, and go directly to Firefox running in a modified Kiosk mode that effectively turns the browser into the […]

Biffuz explains why 4 gigs of RAM in a modern computer system only looks like 3 gigs. The situation appears to be another case of some higher-up technology executive somewhere saying “we’ll never need that much memory in a computer system!” that is coming back to byte computer users in the butt!

Apparently, your PS3 can run the Folding@Home client well.  So, if you sign up with TeamHaiku and head over to their site for links to running the Folding@Home client on your PS3, you can help out the Haiku community! More power to Haiku via your PS3!!!

Rudolf posted some new benchmark results on his nVidia 3d driver page. The benchmarks show the speeds of the current 3D driver Alpha 4.1 and the 2D driver 0.80. The benchmark table compares the framerates achieved in Quake 2 timedemo 1 under BeOS and Windows98 second edition. A number of cards that are supported by […]

Euan posted an update over at the Bebits talkback section of the ATI Radeon graphics driver regarding working drivers for the AGP X700’s and PCI-E X300’s. Thanks goes to Adam Kirchoff for loaning Euan a Radeon card to work with. Here is the important part of Euan’s post: This driver is fresh of the mill, […]

RepairmanJack wrote in a submission for the new $100 Laptop Initiative. From the article: “it will rely on open-source software”. I guess the idea of the submission is: wouldn’t it be nice to get Haiku on one of those things. 🙂 They have flash for long term storage – anyone working on booting Haiku from […]

Greg Crain recently posted over at the bedrivertalk mailing list and the Bedrivers.com forum about his work on the ESS Maestro3 /Allegro sound driver. Here’s what he posted in the bedrivertalk mailing list: Hi all, I finally got around to tweaking the Maestro3 driver code, and it seems to be working. I have a pretty […]

Now that Jérome has an Echo Gina3G, thanks to Bedrivers.com and the support/donations from the community, he now has an Echo audio card to use to continue developing the Echo audio drivers for BeOS. Since Jérome can only test the drivers with his Echo Gina3G, he is interested in seeing the results of other Echo […]

A poll was started over at the Bedrivers.com forums to start raising money to support the development of a complete driver for a multi i/o high quality soundcard for the BeOS. The poll was made to start a discussion about the fund to see who would be interested, how much to raise and to decide […]

I noticed yesterday that the BeOS Laptop Page has a different look and a new forum as well, head on over to the site to take a look. ConneX also has plans to add some new features to the site. One of them is to add a list of laptops that are known to not […]

Today, Rudolf released a new driver and app which enables VIA’s C3 CPUs MTRR-writecombining for graphics cards. According to Rudolf, this will increase access speed to your graphics card by 200-400%. That’s a big increase! You can download the driver and app from Bebits here. Unfortunately, I don’t have a system that uses a VIA […]

I noticed this in the Begroovy forums. MYOB posted a topic regarding the new 3Com driver by Patrick Lafarguette. This might interest some BeOS PowerPC users if you haven’t already read his post: Yet another historic BeOS limitation seems to have been shattered – the 10Mbit barrier for PowerPC network cards. Patrick Lafarguette, who wrote […]

Rudolf, the man who made my nVidia-based laptop go into beautiful widescreen under BeOS, needs your help. He writes I’ve hit some major hardware faults, and I’ve released a new (already old again 😉 version 0.06. (current is 0.09 from the build factory!)… I need people to test the 0.09 CVS driver for me before […]

Caught over at IsComputerOn that there is a new add-on for Boneyard out that will help laptop users configuring wireless cards. It adds a tab to Boneyard (the preference panel for BeOS Networking Environment – BONE – users) that takes configuration of a wireless card out of text configs and into the gui. Great news!

Wear a thong, win a BeBox. According to the official WalterCon Thong Rules website, the winner of the contest gets a dual 133 Mhz BeBoxen with BeOS R5 Pro installed. Second and third place prizes have not been announced but are described as “a bunch of great things directly from Be Inc. auction that are […]

As most users have noticed by now the hardware matrix at FrizBe.net has been down for some time now. After the FrizBe hardware store went under the domain name was eventually left unregistered. The folks over at BeDrivers.com now have a mirror of the matrix in static pages and are working on obtaining the actual […]

Scottmc wrote in to let us know about the newly redesigned BeDrivers website. He had this to say about it: The new site is using php and will allow easier updates. This new site was created by Sikosis and he’ll be helping me out keeping things more upto date than in the past. We now […]

Rudolf Cornelissen, the author of the NeoMagic driver we posted about a couple of months ago, has begun work on a new nVidia driver. He had this to say in a post to the BeDriverTalk mailing list: Currently modesetup is partially working, all cards should be recognized (85!) and the hardcursor is operational. He also […]