TeX Live has been updated to version 2026 by one of our team members at haikuports @jmairboeck, a big thanks there!

https://www.tug.org/texlive/

Following up on that I've updated TeXstudio to it's latest release 4.9.3.

https://www.texstudio.org/

#HaikuOS #TEXLive #TEXstudio #TeXLaTeX #IDE #IceWeasel #Librewolf #Waterfox

Trying HaikuOS again

When was the last time I tried HaikuOS ? Maybe two or three years ago ?

I remembered using a USB stick as the destination of the installation. It can be easily installed on the same stick you’re booting HaikuOS from, without having to edit bootloader files or go into complicated boot issues, isn’t that amazing ?

So if you have for example a 64 GB USB stick, you can prepare it as the installation medium and then still use most of the space for HaikuOS. See here a howto :

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/installing-haiku-to-same-usb-liveboot-drive-guide/15609

So, what’s different from last time I tried it ? Last time the Gnome Web (Epiphany) browser was making its way to become a feasible web browser for HaikuOS. It appears to be gone but LibreWolf is there, and Iceweasel and Iceweasel ESR. These work fine for browsing but drag and drop for customizing icons in the toolbar was not working for me, maybe a graphics card thing ? But there’s always NetPositive, the default HaikuOS web browser.

I think that HaikuOS is fun to play with, especially if you like its design. The bootup is pretty fast and it looks amazing. The desktop itself has a little learning curve but not too difficult.

Drawbacks ? It is still not multi-user as far as I know. You will be running as root all the time. And there’s lots of apps, sometimes outdated. It will not be ready to replace your office work computer but if you like to tinker and play around it could be a fresh alternative for what most open source users use.

@martinus IIRC, debian used to include iceweasel and not Firefox for some reason.... branding? License? No distribution rights?
I don't rely on Firefox sync or password saving anymore as I do this via #KeePassXC but integration with librewolf et.al is causing me a headache . Can't wait to delete Firefox. Not going near Nazi browsers like brave and don't want chromium based ones either.

#timetoditchfirefox
#librewolf
#iceweasel
#AISlop
#Goodbyemozilla

Alguém poderia usar o nome Iceweasel e Icedove para um fork do Firefox e Thunderbird aproveitando o nome usado pelo Debian quando tiveram problemas com a Mozilla por causa do nome e logo que eram marca registrada.

Quand Firefox devenait Iceweasel

https://peertube.pcservice46.fr/w/vpatQWd5Gz5F7uYuBQVyEo

Acabo de instalar #IceCat en #ArchLinux, fork de #Firefox totalmente libre distribuido por el proyecto #gnu.

Sabía que existía como fork de Firefox, pero acabo de descubrir felizmente que es el nuevo nombre del #iceweasel que usaba hace lustros en Debian mmm.... 5 tal vez!

Me encantaba ese browser, minimalista, sencillo y rápido.

Más razones para darle una oportunidad 😃

Thanks to @jmairboeck for updating our TeXlive package to 2025 on Haiku! Now available for 32bit and 64bit 👍

After the update I pushed TeXstudio to version 4.8.6, on par with all! :)

Also big thanks to @3dEyes for updating Iceweasel, porting LibreWolf and Waterfox to Haiku! 👍

#HaikuOS #TEXLive #TEXstudio #TeXLaTeX #IDE #IceWeasel #Librewolf #Waterfox

PS, thanks to Bruno for providing me some sample tex files to be able to track this!