To coincide with Haiku’s 5th Birthday and our 5th Podcast, we decided to bring you a little video treat, called the Introduction to Haiku (15MB – Low Quality) – (Click here for DivX – 58MB – Better Quality).
Then once you’ve watched the video, head on over to rate your favourite icon set in the Haiku Icon Contest.
If you have any feedback about the show or would like to be involved, drop us a comment or email us – haiku at sikosis dot com. Also, please feel free to join our Frappr Map.
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September 5th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Gee! You guys stole a lot of ideas from MacOSX!
September 6th, 2006 at 3:40 am
Quite cool, but… nothing new to see here. I mean, it’s a good video to show the look and feel of Haiku OS, but everything that is shown here, has been around at the time of BeOS already.
I know that the target of Haiku is to have a binary-compatible open-source equivalent of BeOS, but then again, it’s needless to show things most people interested in BeOS and Haiku already know… They’d be better off with some screenshots or a video that shows the different and new things of Haiku (compared to BeOS).
September 6th, 2006 at 4:49 am
Neither informative nor useful
September 6th, 2006 at 4:59 am
Wow, beautiful. Wish I could get an exact replica of the interface for GNU/Linux. Something about it is just so beautiful, I can bearly explain it. It’s simple and peaceful and makes me feel good and clean.
September 7th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
@jan … you might be interested to know that BeOS was written by some ex-Apple employees all those years ago. When I saw Leopard was getting “Spaces” I thought about time. Then when I heard Amber Mac on MacBreak saying that “Spaces” was the coolest thing she’d seen I had to smile rather smugly ;)
@anonymous coward … Not a bad idea. True there was nothing new in the video, it was mainly to show how far along the guys at Haiku are.
@Stefan … thats ok … maybe one day we’ll impress you.
@Josh … that might be quite possible … you’ll be able to “theme” the OS by way of wallpapers, icons, and border decors.
September 8th, 2006 at 4:02 am
Apple should say, as they did with fast user switching, that spaces is not a new idea or feature, but that it is the best implementation so far. Apple’s strength is innovation, not invention.
I am very excited over Haiku progress, and I hope the project will be able to attract developers and users on a big enough scale.
The Wasp-theme for gnome (in gnome-themes-extras) is BeOS-looking and nice :)
In KDE, I think you can have the BeOS-style window decorations/tabs, which are functional and move about and stuff.
September 9th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Wow, that looked really impressive. I didn’t realize they had that much working, and with all that beos goodness underneath. Once the networking and connection stacks are going, it will be ready to use (won’t it?).
Thanks for the video, Sikosis.
September 9th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Cool video, looks like Haiku has retained the level of responsiveness that made BeOS so lovely to use. Good to see how much progress has been made too, thanks.
September 12th, 2006 at 2:41 am
Find! Why didn’t you do query? You could have done that for the people file you created, email from etc., show some more in your next Haiku vidcastlike Tracker related stuff, sort by multiple attributes, drag’n'drop text (when it’s implemented) to various apps, sliding tabs! show how useful they can be, show that the deskbar can be replaced to various corners, traverse the file system with right click onto a tracker window or desktop, drag files with right mouse button (move, copy, link), drop a file onto an icon to have it opened, make clippings, show some useful apps (like gobe productive or im kit or anything which shall make people say “Wow!”.
Thanks Sikosis!