KMyMoney 5.2.0 released, this has been a long awaited release/update, now also available for Haiku, updated for 64bit, enabled/available for 32bit too now. One of the major shifts is the move to Qt6.

https://kmymoney.org/

Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-May-2025

I took BeOS for a spin back in the 90’s and really liked the UI.

Today I learned about its spiritual successor, #HaikuOS, which looks equally pretty!

Current main projects:

• #plptools: Resurrecting old ports (#FreeBSD, #NetBSD) and working on a new port to #HaikuOS. It's an opportunity to get more familiar with the code and maybe find bugs along the way.

Upcoming projects:

• #CTRAN: Still haven't started writing unit tests. Also, complete a full write-up of what it took to get the thing working.
• Get my website running #GoHugo.
• Rebuild of DEATH, my Microserver gen8, probably with #FreeBSD. (Yes, it's been over a year since DEATH's RAID died.)
• Pick another SIBO SDK tool to rewrite. (Probably EMAKE or RCOMP.)
• Add a 17V boost converter to #PsiDrive.
• Make #fefstool create FEFS images. (I'm half-tempted to rewrite fefstool in Pascal to make it easier for me to finish.)

You'll notice that some of these projects have been sitting for a while. I've struggled to get going with things this year. I'm hoping that working though plptools will give me some mental energy to get going with other things.

Today’s evening: first steps with @haiku on my vintage 32bit Samsung NC-10. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nc10 #HaikuOS

Some #Psion news! #plptools, the open source suite of programs for transferring files to and from #EPOC16 and #EPOC32 devices, has some additional maintainers: @captfab, @jbmorley ... and me!

We're looking into how we can take the project into the future. We do have some ideas, but we're taking a considered approach to future development.

plptools currently runs on Linux and macOS (and possibly FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, although these haven't been tested in a while). I've started work on porting it to #HaikuOS.

The repo has been moved to a new GitHub organisation, which you can find here. https://github.com/plptools/plptools

Updated at haikuports TuxPaint 0.9.35 and Friends. Available for install on 32bit and 64bit Haiku.

https://tuxpaint.org/

Updated at haikuports: QtCreator 16.0.2 (local checkout for latest 17.0.0 beta), available for update on 32bit and 64bit. Enjoy! :)

Genio 4.0 is here! The native IDE for Haiku OS is now stable enough to develop Haiku itself - a major milestone!
Drag-and-drop projects, customizable workspace, enhanced navigation & 5 new language localizations
https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_depot_server/771/genio-4-0-the-ide-thats-changing-the-face-of-haiku-development/
#HaikuOS #Genio #IDE #OpenSource

Updated for Haiku 64bit: Lazarus 4.0.

Lazarus is a Rapid Application Development Tool for Free Pascal.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Install or update it with Haiku's application HaikuDepot or the Terminal command pkgman.

For this I created/updated a local script (partly based on how Fedora uses it):

https://codeberg.org/Begasus/Lazarus_Haiku/src/branch/main/lazarusBuildFedora.sh

Playing around with KDE's kde-builder tool on Haiku, after the first attempts things look pretty good in shape.

For those interested, I've wrote down some steps on how to set this up for haiku at:

https://codeberg.org/Begasus/haikuports/wiki/kde-builder+and+Haiku+%28WIP%29.-

Upstream information (lots of additional required information can be found there):

https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kde-builder/

Meanwhile Kcalc and Konsole (and their required frameworks build). :)

#HaikuOS #KDE #kde-builder #software #wiki #Konsole #fastfetch

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective

｢ One of BFS's most important and widely touted features is its support for extended attributes. An example of the importance of attributes is illustrated with an example of MP3 files. Information fields important to an MP3 file would be: song title, band, album, release date, encoding rate, length, number of times played ｣

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/

Upcoming (new), KLettres 25.04.0 on Haiku (once the buildmasters finish this will be available for both 32bit and 64bit).

KLettres helps a very young child or an adult learning a new language by associating sounds and letters in this language.

https://apps.kde.org/klettres/

Not released (yet) Massif Visualizer, 25.04.0 not sure if there would be an interest in it, opening example (in screenshot bz2 archive) works as expected.

Massif Visualizer is a tool that - who'd guess that - visualizes massif data.

https://apps.kde.org/massif_visualizer/

Updated on Haiku, KGraphViewer, have to admit I forgot about this one, latest release for Haiku was 2.4.3, now on par with latest release 25.04.0.

KGraphViewer is a Graphviz DOT graph file viewer, aimed to replace the other outdated Graphviz tools. Graphs are commonly used in scientific domains and particularly in computer science.

https://apps.kde.org/kgraphviewer/

Fastfetch 2.42.0 released on Haiku, available for 32bit and 64bit. Enjoy!

https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch