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Christopher Barnatt from explainingcomputer.com explains the basics of @haiku in this excellent video by showing the usage of the UI and installing ported software like @libreoffice @GIMP and @FirefoxOfficial
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https://youtu.be/1R4WCaOpmlo?is=My8QriwpjWwQUrNc

Ура! Пишу из под #HaikuOS

@Debby Eble Haiku-OS? Ĝi estas tre malgranda kaj bezonas malpli da resursoj, sed sufiĉe moderna kaj kapabla. Kaj la apogo de Esperanto estas tre bona.

https://www.haiku-os.org/

#haikuos #esperanto #eo

I'm genuinely impressed by Haiku. I used to love BeOS, back in the day, which I got to experience around R5. They upped their compat game a lot since I last looked.

Aside from how ludicrously tight, fast, responsive and minimally efficient it still is, what kind of shocks me is how the icons, window decorations, buttons, dialogs and UX in general still looks really slick by today's standards. It does not really feel any sort of retro, in the slightest, which is an odd feeling.

#HaikuOS

@trashheap

A web browser is probably the single most important program for me, so knowing that #Firefox, #Waterfox and #Librewolf run on #HaikuOS is a big step forward in its... "daily-driver-ability" for me

@trashheap

I assumed #Firefox mods like #Waterfox weren't available yet for #HaikuOS, good to find out at least WF is!

Cautiously excited. This is the #racket programming language on #haikuos - specifically it's the DrRacket IDE running on Haiku.

This was a goal for me when I started porting #Chez #Scheme to Haiku this year (Racket is built with Chez). Prof. Matthew Flatt did some initial work in a Racket branch when he reviewed my work on Chez, and today I took that branch and made a handful of changes, and very rapidly got here (I'm flabberghasted that all the Raco buildout worked and gracket too)

It's a small thing, and a small contribution. I've been contributing to Free and Open Source Software for 30 years, and still seeing something I did go out into the world makes me very happy. #chez #scheme 10.4.0 is out now on #haikuos

@mason also, I’ll have to update the #haikuports version of #chez #scheme this weekend too, the patches I used to make it run on #haikuos have been adopted upstream and now released. Thus we can simplify that port!

Nothing too exciting, unless you're me - for the first time I have #chez #scheme placing a graphical window on my #haikuos desktop - this is using the native C++ API, wrapped as a C API and then accessed via FFI.

And, with the kind support and assistance of Matthew Flat, the #haikuos port of #chez #scheme has landed in the main branch of the repository! That should allow a simplification of the #haikuports package in the future too!

Phase 2 took a step forward. Someone else fixed a threading issue and that made everything pass on the HEAD of the git repository for #Chez #scheme on my #haikuos build box. So I've just submitted the PR to the upstream project to re-establish Haiku support in Chez. Let's see how that goes.

Reminder, the #haikuports version of Chez Scheme is already available.

I've done a bit of experimenting getting #racket to build, but I'm not there yet. #Akku looks promising too.

Next steps:
- Work on getting the new machine types into the upstream #Chez #Scheme project.
- Take this work and use it to get #Racket building on top of Chez for #HaikuOS

The #chez #scheme port got merged in the #haikuports repository just under an hour ago.

Yay. Happy hacking #haikuos users who love Scheme (there must be at least four of us!).

The #chez #scheme port for haiku is progressing through review. I was impressed with the speed and quality of reviewing that was done so far. As a first time contributor to #haikuports it's really nice to get the feedback and tips. #haikuos #scheme

Well, I had to learn more that I was expecting (particularly about how tests work in the #chez #scheme code), but I've just submitted the PR on the #haikuports
repository. If that port gets accepted I'll have a go at getting the new #haiku machine types for Chez added to the upstream project.

I might then move towards getting #racket up and running on #Haiku on the basis of the Chez port. #haikuos

A little update on my efforts to port #chez #scheme to #Haikuos . I'm pretty sure (as per my last post) that its running fine, but there are certain aspects of Haiku that need to be properly reflected in the test suite.

Chief among these areas is the filesystem - some file operations that the test suite expects to fail, which simply succeed. Some of this is because Haiku, as a single-user OS, basically gives you root rights across the whole filesystem.

haven't got the touch screen to work yet but so far everything else has worked right out of the box and it runs like a dream
#haiku #haikuos #vaio #sonyvaio #umpc

🖌️ #AzPainter Resources: Brushes, Textures, Themes & UI Layouts (#GIMP- and #Krita-like) by 'pistachio' — https://gitlab.com/pistachio-gitlab/AzPainter-Resources
💡 AzPainter is a #painting app & raster image editor, supporting #PSD format, layers (including text layers) with layer effects.
App, written in C with a GUI based on an own widget set ("mlk") for #Xlib-#libX11-#X11, is available for Unix-like OS (#Linux, #FreeBSD, etc.) and ported to #Haiku-#HaikuOS (via #Xlibe), #Mac-#macOS (via #XQuartz) & #Android (via #Termux).