Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th Aug 2005 20:49 UTC
SkyOS SkyOS Beta 8.5 has just been released. New features include the Indexing Service, an SQL based file attribute and content index service which makes it possible to find your files in a fraction of a second, better developer support, and a lot of bug fixes. NVU has also been ported and is available in this release. You can read the changelog here. Update: Screenshots gallery by OSDir.
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@Youll & Thom
by on Sun 7th Aug 2005 16:22 UTC

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@Youll

Well... I just registered...And I'll help with the balancing if I can ;)

@Thom

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In this letter we made a few proposals that could improve SkyOS' stability, development process, and more...
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Those are sensible thoughts too. From my distant point of view, it often looked as if there was no roadmap, no planning, no organisation in the SkyOS development process...And It made me wonder....

Well..one year after signing for beta membership,
I must acknowledge that :

1) SkyOS improves fast (essentially due to Robert "I have 5 arms & 3 brains" coding skills and involvment).

2) We have no clue what the next new features will be,
but usually, they are worth the wait.

3) bugs are squashed in a somewhat random manner...

Actually, Robert looks like he isn't the kind of guy that works best when tied to a development process based on routin and disciplin...

And I would bet my horse that, given a choice between squashing bugs or doing documentation work, he would choose to implement a new feature...

humans...sigh..... ;)

So, maybee that's the reason why this letter of yours didn't have the result you expected...
(even though your ideas are sensible, maybee Robert would just hate working under these conditions)

@Youll and Thom

If you don't want to , I might ;) post on the SkyOS forums and ask Kelly if he could get in touch with Robert and get us answers to a few questions :

1) what about Mister pengui's idea ?

2) now that Beta 8.5 is released, what next Beta 8.6 or beta 9, and what to expect ?

3) As Beta 8 was about networking, what about USB ?

Lakedaemon

RE: @Youll & Thom
by on Sun 7th Aug 2005 16:48 in reply to "@Youll & Thom"
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I believe that Beta 9 will be about reenabling USB.

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