[GSoC 2017] 3D Hardware Acceleration - Weekly Report 1

Blog post by vivek on Fri, 2017-05-19 00:49

Hello again My previous blog post was a brief introduction to my project - 3D Hardware Acceleration in Haiku. The second week of GSoC demands the second post and so here we go. Bonding Well, there hasn’t been a lot of coding work in the last two week, as much as I would have liked, primarily because I wasn’t well for a couple of days. But, I did do what I am supposed to do at this period, i.

[GSoC 2017] First two weeks of Community Bonding

Blog post by AkshayAgarwal007 on Thu, 2017-05-18 08:51

Hello Everyone! In my previous post I introduced you all to the Calendar Application project that I would be working upon as a part of GSoC 2017. In this post I would be focusing on my first two weeks of the community bonding period. Getting to know people The first few days were spent in exploring more about the Haiku community, getting to know the mentors and fellow students, and learning in details about their project through their blog posts.

[GSoC 2017] Porting the Swift Programming Language to Haiku

Blog post by return0e on Wed, 2017-05-10 12:58

Introduction Hello everyone! I'm Joseph 'Calvin' Hill, (irc nick: return0e) a third year computer science student at the University of Hull and one of the 7 GSoC students participating with Haiku. I'm also a active contributor to the HaikuPorts organisation, by porting over useful cross-platform software found on other platforms, to be made available on Haiku. This summer, I'll be porting the Swift programming language to Haiku with my mentors Jérôme Duval 'Korli' and Julian Harnath 'jua', with the intention of merging these changes upstream.

[GSOC 2017] Tcp optimization and fine tuning

Blog post by a-star on Wed, 2017-05-10 13:11

Hello Haiku! My name is Ayush (nick: a-star). I am really glad to have been selected for GSOC 2017 and I will be striving to optimize the tcp implementation of Haiku this summer. A little about me I am in the junior year of computer science and egineering at VITCC, India. I am a profound Linux user. I have gained formal education on the subject while pursuing the Redhat certifications.

[GSoC 2017] Adding write supports for Btrfs

Blog post by HyChe on Mon, 2017-05-08 13:49

Hello everyone, My name is Hy (Trac: hyche, freenode IRC: ugen), and this first blog is about my introduction and Btrfs. This is the first time I participate in Google Summer of Code, I also know Haiku through this event. My project in this summer is write supports for Btrfs and my main mentors are mmu_man (François Revol) and tqh (Fredrik Holmqvist). During the community bonding period, I will Set up my development environment (userlandfs and fs_shell).

[GSoC 2017] Calendar Application

Blog post by AkshayAgarwal007 on Mon, 2017-05-08 06:51

Introduction Hello I'm Akshay (IRC/Trac: akshay, GitHub: AkshayAgarwal007) from Kolkata, India. I would be working on developing a native Calendar Application for Haiku as a part of Google Summer of Code 2017. My mentors for the project are Scott McCreary and Kacper Kasper. I am very excited for this project. Why a Calendar Application? Isn't there already one? A Calendar application is a must have application for any operating system and would be beneficial for end users as well as developers.

[GSoC 2017] Preferences GUI Refactoring Intro

Blog post by anirudhm on Sat, 2017-05-06 23:32

Hello World. I’m Anirudh Murali (Trac: anirudh; IRC: anirudhm), from the southern region of India. I thank Haiku for selecting me as one of Google Summer of Code 2017 student. I’ll be working on the idea: “Preferences GUI Refactoring” this summer along with my mentors: waddlesplash and Sean Healy. As of now, if one has to access any Preferences, a right click on the Deskbar, and accessing it with the submenu of Preferences, and still people who are new to Haiku end up selecting the wrong preferences option, atleast it happened for me.

[GSoc 2017] Adding Harfbuzz support to Haiku

I am Deepanshu(Trac: digib0y IRC:digib0y), I am one of the seven students selected for GSoC this year from Haiku. I will be working to add Harfbuzz support this summer. Quick intro: I am an engineering student of Christ University, India. I am pursuing a degree in Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. I have been a previous Google Code-In student where I worked with Haiku for the first time, I can recall the first time I ever connected to an IRC channel during GCI 2014; it was both my interest in the GCI task and my attraction to the positive, friendly environment on #haiku that convinced me to continue working with Haiku.

[GSoC 2017] 3D Hardware Acceleration in Haiku

Blog post by vivek on Fri, 2017-05-05 04:41

Hello everyone My name is Vivek (Trac: vivek-roy, IRC: vivu). I have been selected for Google Summer of Code 2017 to work with Haiku on the project 3D Hardware Acceleration in Haiku. The Mesa renderer in Haiku presently ventures into software rendering. Haiku uses software for rendering frame buffers and then writes them to the graphics hardware. The goal of my project is to port Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Driver for i915, from the Linux kernel to Haiku with the help of DragonflyBSD’s Linux Compatibility layer, so that those drivers can be later extended to add OpenGL support (Mesa3D) for hardware accelerated 3D rendering.

Haiku monthly activity report - 04/2017

Blog post by PulkoMandy on Sun, 2017-04-30 20:26

Once again I am out of catchy taglines to introduce the monthly report. To apologize for that, I updated the statistics about Haiku git repository, and also added a similar statistics page for haikuports. This report convers hrevs 51064 to 51139. Network A lot of activity on this side with no particular reason, with kallisti5 and waddlesplash working on the network preferences and underlying stack, towards support for VPNs and PPP connections.