Just a heads up to those following the progress of Haiku OS and it’s Webkit based browser, WebPositive. As of hrev47114 (nightly build), there are the beginnings of support for HMTL 5 Video/Audio. Go check it out! 🙂
If you are a Haiku OS enthusiasts AND an Austin Powers fan, this will make you smile. I just found the following Easter Egg in the naming of one of the threads of ‘media_addon_server’…. These folks are having too much fun….:-)
If you are a tinkerer of alternative OS’s, then you might know about Haiku OS. It is the Open Source recreation of the old BeOS, that was created by the now defunct, Be, Inc. It is the OS that was ‘almost’ the new Mac OS (Steve Jobs won that battle), but lost out to NeXTSTEP
If you are new to Haiku OS or have never heard of it. Check out this very long article by Ryan Leavengood of the Haiku OS Project. It gives a good history lesson on it’s predecessor, BeOS and how Haiku OS (once known as OpenBeOS) came about. Good read!  Thanks Ryan! Click here to read the article.
Some exciting news for one of my favorite Operating Systems. Haiku, the Open Source OS that is inspired by the original BeOS and uses some Open Source pieces provided by Be, Inc. before they resolved as a company, are hiring a Software Developer on contract to update the WebKit port for Haiku and to do
