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Haiku Tech Talk at Google a Success

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the come-together dept.

mikesum writes "February 13 was Haiku's big day at Google, and we can say with a good degree of confidence that the Haiku Tech Talk was quite successful. We had a very special guest for this event: former Be Inc. CEO Jean Louis Gassée, who not only joined us at Google for our presentation, but also gave a few words of support and encouragement for our project. It was great to have JLG's presence, as well as that of the several ex-Be engineers who showed up for the talk. We were also glad to see Java for BeOS developer Andrew Bachman join us for this special event. Have a look at the pictures taken during the presentation, as well as the video of the event."

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  1. Re:uh by NiteMair · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, besides the fact that it runs BeOS R5 software natively (binary-compatible) - and is followed and supported by pretty much everyone who is left in the BeOS community, not much.

  2. Meta-Comment by giminy · · Score: 1, Informative

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  3. Re:you thought that went well?? by Baba+Ram+Dass · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's alpha software, meaning it's not feature complete (almost but not quite) and has loads of bugs. As someone who checks out the regular builds on a daily basis, the stability varies considerably from one revision to the next simply because of the rapid changes and development going on.

    There's been days when it was more stable than Linux or Windows. Others when DOS seemed more useful. I'm guessing this just happened to be the performance of a lesser build.

    The importance of HVI (which isn't strictly a form of SVG, but of vector graphics) is that an icon that would normally take several kilobytes in disk space consumes less than the size that's free on a typical BFS inode, allowing gorgeous graphics with no extra disk seeks required; it's quite a feat that other UIs should take note of.

    All in all, it's very impressive what a handful of developers have managed to do in the last five years from scratch. It's going to be very exciting what happens in the next couple of years after R1 comes out.

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  4. Re:new filesystem by mlk · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are implementing the same FS as BeOS had (BeFS). So not "new" at all. OFS (Old Be FS) had Even More database goodness I believe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeFS

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