Networking and Web Browsing Under Haiku.
Apr 10, 2005 01:59 UTC, by Kian Duffy, Senior Journalist
From the textual-pleasure department...

Micheal Lotz has updated his blog again with news that he now has networking the Links text mode web browswer running under Haiku, amongst other things in an extremely large post to his Haiku Blog.
 
All the news is there, but in summary - kernel land networking now works on Haiku, and is sufficient for those with ethernet connections to the Internet to be able to browse the web, 1990 style, in Links. This is a major, major step along the road to getting all of Haiku working together. 
 
In addition, support for using select() on pipes with pipefs was added to the kernel.
 
His port of Links is available here as one binary, which works on both BeOS R5 and Haiku, which is of course binary compatible with BeOS. Screenshot is here, as is an interesting shot of the app_server with working clipping, using the Painter backed written by Stippi, and indeed an interface kit widget (the BButton) here.