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Table of Contents
- About the Speaker
- The Haiku Brand
- Insight in Haiku: the Technology
Introduction to Haiku An Open Source Desktop OS Niels Sascha - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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OPERATING SYSTEM Introduction to Haiku An Open Source Desktop OS Niels Sascha Reedijk - 14-10-2007 Table of Contents About the Speaker The Haiku Brand Insight in Haiku: the Technology www.haiku-os.org Inspired by the BeOS . About
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About the Speaker
- Professional
– Mathematics teacher – Media & Culture Student: majoring in film
- Open Source
– KDE Translation team (to Dutch) – Several Haiku odds and ends – Current occupation: The Haiku Book
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Table of Contents
- About the Speaker
- The Haiku Brand
- Insight in Haiku: the Technology
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Haiku Historic Timeline
1990 1995 2007 2001
yellowTAB
ZETA OS
Be Inc.
BeBox/BeOS
- Aug. 2005
1st WalterCon held Project renamed Haiku
- Aug. 18
OpenBeOS Project kicks off
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Pillars of the Haiku Brand
1. The Product 2. The Philosophy 3. The Community
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The Haiku Brand: The Product (I)
- Clean and responsive user interface
- Small memory footprint
- Visual consistency
- Usuability
- Extendibility
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The Haiku Brand: The Product (II)
- Easy and effective multi-threading
- Clean and integrated API
- Usable tools: Translation Kit
- Partial POSIX compliance
- Extendibility
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The Haiku Brand: The Philosophy
- Keep it simple
- Modular and Extensible
- Stay focused
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The Haiku Brand: The Community
- The philosophy
- Mixed crowd
- Open and supportive
- But: a small crowd
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OPERATING SYSTEM
Demonstration
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Table of Contents
- About the Speaker
- The Haiku Brand
- Insight in Haiku: the Technology
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Technology Overview
- Modular Kernel
- Support for multi-threading from the ground up
– Ports – Semaphores – Areas (shared memory)
- Server-architecture
- C++ API in Kits
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Technology in Perspective
- 1. Multi-threading
- 2. (open)BFS
- 3. Add-Ons
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Multi-threading
- Basic kernel services: ports, semaphores and
areas
- Messages
– Identifier (or 'what' code) – Data members – Metadata
- The Application Kit:
– BLooper – BHandler
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OpenBFS (I)
- 64-bit
- Journaled
- Built for large files (multimedia)
- Extended attributes (or: meta-data)
- Typed
– Int, float, ... – String, mime-type – Icon
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OpenBFS (II): Queries
- Formula based queries
- Live updated by the file system
- Used by Applications
- Search for contacts:
– ((META:email==”*bea*@paleis.nl”)) – ((IM:status==”Online”))
- Mail Files
((MAIL:status==”New”))
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OpenBFS (III)
Demonstration
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Add-ons (I)
- Dynamically loadable code
- Kernel add-ons
– Drivers – Bus managers – Network stack
- Graphics add-ons
- Input add-ons
– Methods – Devices
- ...
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Add-ons (II): Replicants
- Replicants are Add-Ons
- In essence: Serialized apps inside apps
- Feature of the messaging architecture
- Task separation
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Add-Ons (III): Replicants
Demonstration
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Conclusion
- Honestly ...
- Haiku Brand
- Haiku Technology
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Many thanks!
- The Haiku Developers, for (hopefully) getting
me a stable build
- T-DOSE: Jean-Paul Saman & Jeroen Baten,
and all the volunteers
- Jorge G. Mare for the flyer and the pointers
(www.myhaiku.org)
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That's it! Any questions?
?
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For more information...
Haiku website www.haiku-os.org IRC channel #haiku@irc.freenode.net
- Mailing lists
- General: www.freelists.org/list/openbeos
- Development: www.freelists.org/list/haiku-development