Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Oct 2009 11:02 UTC
The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.
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RE[3]: Better than nothing but ..
by bralkein on Wed 28th Oct 2009 03:44
in reply to "RE[2]: Better than nothing but .."
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Well yes, that's what I meant really. If eg. responsiveness is all that Haiku native apps have to offer, then I would be surprised if that alone was enough to set them apart, especially if the apps are lacking in features and general maturity when compared to ported apps. If there are other technological advantages that native apps can make use of, then maybe that will be interesting.
You mention that responsiveness might not be a great selling point alone, which I would agree with. I had the same argument here with someone regarding disk footprint: if nobody cares about that so much then you may as well spend your developent time doing something they do care about instead. That's good tech, and that's what sells.
"I believe that the superior technology will win out in the end.
Yeah right! We are all using BeOS on Alpha CPUs.. "
As I've said elsewhere, I don't suggest this to be a general rule but in Qt apps vs. Haiku native I think this would be the case.
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Uh? Only if there are application developpers who cares about responsiveness.
Given that both Linux and Windows have responsiveness much worse than BeOS had (on much less powerful hardware), it's very doubtful that they care: it's not something easy to measure, so it's not easy to sell..
Fan are fans.. Yes BeOS was much more responsive that current OS are, this doesn't mean that they succeeded commercially and this doesn't mean that Haiku will succeed: I'd be delighted if it does, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah right! We are all using BeOS on Alpha CPUs..