Lunduke's Weird Computing News - Nov 6, 2022

Date:
Mon, 07 Nov 2022 03:24:08 GMT

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Listen now (30 min) | Haiku Beta 4 inches closer, Ladybird web browser can
run Linux, GNU Make drops OS/2, Amiga, Cray, & Xenix.

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Here is the Weird computer news the retro and alternative OS stuff for November 6th, 2022! Share Currently 3 blocker bugs for Haiku Beta 4

For those looking forward to the upcoming imminent" release of Haiku Beta 4 its worth noting that, according to the official Haiku bug tracker , there
are only 4 issues that are marked as blocker for Beta 4.

Meaning that at least as of this very moment only three known bugs are considered critical to be fixed before Beta 4 is released.

Whats more, all three look to be fairly simple tasks. This bodes very well for Beta 4 being released in the near future.

If Haiku Beta 4 releases this month, it will arrive roughly 16 months after the previous version (Beta 3 was released in July of 2021).

Haiku Week Starts Wednesday!

On a related note: Starting Wednesday, November 9th, The Lunduke Journal Community will begin celebrating Haiku Week.

This will include articles here on The Lunduke Journal and posts over on Lunduke.Locals.com . As with past themed weeks, the community posts will be gathered up and posted for all to enjoy.

Ladybird web browser now can run Linux in a PC emulator in Javascript

In Thats Awesome! news: The Ladybird web browser the completely from-scratch web browser that originated as part of the Serenity OS project is now advanced enough that it can run JSLinux.org a Javscript PC emulator that runs Linux.

Think about how awesome that is for a web browser that was developed from scratch .

So you can run Linux in a from-scratch web browser running on a from-scratch operating system. The future is now.

GNU Make drops support for OS/2, Amiga, Cray, and Xenix

The GNU project has announced that it will no longer be supporting multiple retro platforms: OS/2, Amiga, Xenix, and Cray.

While its always sad to see dropped support for aging and alternative operating systems Im not sure that the loss of future versions of GNU Make will have much of an impact on programmers for those four systems. It simply doesnt appear to be that widely used on those platforms.

That said you can get versions of Make in ArcaOS (the updated OS/2) and several GNU tools (such as GCC) as part of the latest AmigaOS SDK . Subscribe now





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