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."

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Haiku Tech Talk

[sczimme]

Jean Louis Gassée
who joined us at Google and
gave words of support .

Re:Haiku Tech Talk

[sokoban]

Jean Louis Gassée
Be OS was a big flop
What does he do now?

Haiku

[EveryNickIsTaken]

Might be good OS
But with only twelve users
Grim future ahead.

Re:Haiku

[VorpalRodent]

I know its bad form to reply to my own comment, but I just realized that there was another one I missed:

Obligatory:
Imagine a beowulf
Cluster of these things.

ahh

[physicsboy500]

Google learns today

new OS will thrill us all

Slashdotters rejoice

Non-haiku poem post.

[Spazntwich]

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

Another

[DavidD_CA]

Typical Slashdot
Mention haikus and you all
Become smartasses

Slashdotted Haiku

[DavidD_CA]

warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (11) in /home2/haiku/webapps/website/gallery2/lib/adodb/dr ivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 348. Warning: mysql
Cannot connect to server
No pictures to see

Success needs opensource drivers

[DrYak]

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.

Haiku

[VorpalRodent]

Obligatory:
But In Soviet Russia
Haiku Uses You

you thought that went well??

[Lord Bitman]

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.

Re:you thought that went well??

[Baba Ram Dass]

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.

Haikus are easy....

[Viper_Viper]

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

Re:uh

[rolandog]

There you go again,
not writing witty haikus.
Insensitive clod!

Poetic moderators

[alienmole]

Failing haiku form
You will be moderated
As Troll on /.