First out is the announcement of the new Italian Haiku Usergroup, so Giuseppe is finally back writing Haiku news for the Italian community.

Second out is JiSheng Zhang (alias absabs) with great news about his GSOC project: Firewire support for Haiku. In his latest blog entry he tells that "Currently, almost 100% of the revised project goals has been completed. The firewire stack such as link layer, transaction layer and bus manager has almost been completed. Isochronous transmission and asynchronous transmission works OK. I also tested my minidv : Canon MV920, it works OK. The screen shot is attached, the received DV data can be found here. We may use mplayer to play it."

http://mail2.ustc.edu.cn/~jszhang3/mini.dv

The screen shot:
http://mail2.ustc.edu.cn/~jszhang3/screen1.png

For those of you who wonder if you know can connect your Firewire hard drives to Haiku, the answer is no. According to JiSheng Zhang hard drive support needs sbp, but that is something that he plan to develop. He could also tell ICO that his development has been done on the Texas Instrument chip TSB12LV26, and that his driver implementation excists of 13 parts.

Last out in this roundup is our Russian friend, Troeglazov Gerasim (alias 3dEyes**), with two examples on how mature the network kit in Haiku has become. First of all, the latest version of his IM client Romashka is now running on Haiku. An even greater achievement is his port of Samba 3.10 to Haiku. From the screenshot below you can see that he has been capable of accessing files stored on Haiku from Windows!

Comments

Can I have all of this right now? Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-09-01 11:09:43 So many news!And the best: SO MANY GOOD NEWS!     Long time that I don't fell so exited about BeOS!    I would like to know if all this stuff is already available in the haiku's vmware images from haiku-os.org?

Only Firewire Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-09-02 00:10:22 Hi Fernando,    only Firewire has been added to the official Haiku image.     As far as I know, 3dEyes** has not released it work yet and this work will possibly not be added to the offical image, but perhaps a future version of the Haikuware image will have them installed?

haiku-os.it Written by emitrax on 2007-09-02 05:53:28 Looks like Haiku is getting closer and closer to R1!    About the haiku-os.it portal, as I far as I know, it is a merge of the two italian websites about BeOS/Haiku, so I think you should mention even the other guy that is behind the project

samba Written by biffuz on 2007-09-02 13:34:31 I've been waiting for Samba on BeOS (or derivatives) for years! I would like the client more than the server, but that's a step ahead.  On haiku-os.it, it's the home of the new Italian Haiku User Group, born from the ashes of the old Italian BeOS User Group. Show must go on!

not to nitpick... Written by ithamar on 2007-09-02 15:43:58 because this is all great news, but it is 'exists' and not 'excists'     But yeah, this is indeed great news for Haiku!

Great news! Written by stippi on 2007-09-03 02:49:48 Wow, these are really some great news! I hope SAMBA will be part of the repository as well! Thanks for the news update, I first heard about SAMBA here!

Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-09-03 03:05:50 www.haiku-os.it is a merge from:    www.itbug.org by Andrea Bernardi + www.iltuosistema.it by Giuseppe Gargaro + with the contribution of all the italian user group

cifs/samba Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-09-03 09:08:58 biffuz: I have been using smb (windows shares) for years in BeOS using cifsmount. R5 had it and so did Zeta/Dano though they used a slightly modified version compared to the R5. It actually used to mount them quicker in the office for my laptop than trying to use the windows shares under windows as you didn't have to use the crappy explorer smb browser .     Still nice to see Haku being kept up to date with such critical interoperability layers.

Firewire Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-09-03 09:13:37 Great news. Even better that work is still being done towards support FW harddrives I have one myself never been convinced usb2 really cuts it even though max theoretical bandwidth is higer than FW400. May want to contact iZ if you manage to get them working and the stack is usable on a vanilla R5. Their pro tool suite Radar 24 has been asking for firewire harddrive support almost since it went on sale (probably even before to be honest but those communications probably only went as far as Be Inc).

Beautiful screenshot Written by BiPolar on 2007-09-03 09:27:12 I'm just impressed by 3dEyes**'s screenshot.    Call me geek, but it think it's gorgeous :-)

Haiku Italia Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-09-03 10:21:08 www.haiku-os.it is a merge from www.itbug.org by Andrea Bernardi and www.iltuosistema.it by Giuseppe Gargaro   and is the home of the new Italian Haiku User Group