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 OS (the basis for todays Mac OSX).

Recently, in their development, the Haiku team has implemented a Package Management (PM) system (something that has always been sorely missing on BeOS and HaikuOS). That’s the good part. The bad part is that most BeOS/HaikuOS software that was previously packaged, is broken by the addition of the PM system.

There are a few software packages that I use with the Nightly HaikuOS builds, such as SoundPlay (for listening to Dark Matter Radio Network), OpenSound Driver (to make sound work in my VMWare HaikuOS VM) and Paladin (a development IDE, modeled after BeIDE, which itself was a port of MetroWorks CodeWarrior).

To help out Haiku OS enthusiasts, I have repackaged these software packages for use in the 4.1x+PM nightly builds. You can find these packages on this website or on HaikuWare. For the links, go to this page:

HaikuOS

Enjoy! 🙂