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Haiku Tech Talk at Google a Success
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."
Jean Louis Gassée
who joined us at Google and
gave words of support
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Might be good OS
But with only twelve users
Grim future ahead.
Google learns today
new OS will thrill us all
Slashdotters rejoice
The original generic sig.
I wanted to go against the grain.
There once was a man most true
Who came to talk in Haiku
His OS was dead
The workers felt dread
Their business might soon be too
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.
Typical Slashdot
Mention haikus and you all
Become smartasses
-David
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No pictures to see
-David
slashdotter hangs head
:(
shall not forget tags again
always preview first
Please help metamoderate.
It's example like this I want to give to all who say "Meh ! I don't need my drivers to be opensource, nVidia's drivers for linux are good enough".
Yeah. And how are you going to port them to Haiku ? nVidia has not interests in supporting additional OS that don't even have 1% market share. (It's already incredible that they support BSD, Solaris and 2 Linux platforms) But if nouveau project succeeds, Haiku people will have a nice opensource code base from which to adapt a driver. And without good hardware support, nice systems like haiku won't get widespread use.
I wish a lot of luck to Haiku, and hope they'll find a way to survive in the difficult place where companies only focus on the 1-2 most popular platforms, and refuse to help the others.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Obligatory:
But In Soviet Russia
Haiku Uses You
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
Everything they showed didn't work, everything asked for wasn't available, they seemed _very_ impressed with themselves about a compressed form of SVG (which is just so important to Operating System design).
I really don't see what I (or anyone) am supposed to take out of that presentation.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
He "gave a few words". Would "seventeen syllables" Be right on the nail?
And strangely enough
once I log in to the site
warnings go away
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
There you go again,
not writing witty haikus.
Insensitive clod!
Or we could go for Gangsta Rap OS! Don't even have to rhyme, just RESPEKT, BITCHEZ!!!
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Well, technically
Haiku may be fantastic
but to run what apps?
Circumcision is child abuse.
It was something really neat. What blew me away with BeOS 4.5 (I think that was the first Intel build), was being able to run 3 windows of video simultaneously (same 350Mhz PII running win95 could handle 1 window of video). I could spin multiple GL teapots in different windows with really crisp performance. And it worked really well with my Haupage capture card, no dropped frames. In the modern world of 100 fps, texture mapped, highly accelerated OpenGL/DirectX games that's not much of an accomplishment. On 1997-ish hardware, however, it was an accomplishment.
Compared to Win32 API, MFC and Macintosh Toolbox the API was fairly clean and simple. In fairly short order I wrote a native C++ app (as an exercise for the reader) that read in image files and broke it into R, G and B channels with histogram plots. I could then lower/raise the intensity of each channel. It could read in just about any format (jpg, gif, tiff, and some other odd-balls). In addition the app was safely multi-threaded. It was a piece of cake. Compared to my beloved Mac (on which I learned C), it was completely painless. Version 5.0 and 6.0 were going to have a lot of great, new features that were giving MS a real run for their money.
That was nearly 10 years ago. GUIs have progressed since then. I forked out the dough for Zeta - on a nostalgia kick - six months or so ago. It just didn't have the features I expect from a modern OS. When Be went belly up (remember MS had such a tight lock on OEMs Be literally couldn't give their OS away) time seems to have stopped for the BeOS. I didn't bother installing it on real hardware - just on VMware. I played around with it for a couple of days and then needed the disk space for something else. Haven't touched it since.
Well, I hope the Haiku guys have a lot of fun with their project and other users get a chance to play with what I still think is a really neat operating system.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli -- Clemenza, The Godfather
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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
Wow, I should not post when knackered.