Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jul 2005 18:47 UTC, submitted by Tanner
Today the latest SVN checkout of Haiku sources gave us very good news: app_server can now run Tracker (screenshot 1 2 3), although it crashes so often that it is actually unusable. You can check this yourself by downloading a Haiku image from Philipp Schmid's blog and running it in Virtual PC (or VMWare). This news is a sign that Haiku is near alpha release.
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RE: Does not look the same
by the_webers_inc on Thu 7th Jul 2005 02:23
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---I think they should try and emulate BeOS as closely as possible and limit improvements to bug fixes in R1.---
Thats exactly what they are trying to do. As far as everything looking exactly the same, It will come. I sure that they are happy just to have something that looks like it at this point.
A lot of good info about where they are headed with Haiku over at there website www.haiku-os.org :
the FAQs:
http://haiku-os.org/learn.php?mode=faq_normal
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2005-07-06
Yes, it looks pretty professional. But the 'perfectionist' can point out several things which could be improved upon...
The fonts seem to be a bit too big, compared to the original used as the default font for the menu in BeOS.
Also, the close button is not as nice as the original BeOS one, it is shaded differently and looks a bit worse in my opinion.
I think they should try and emulate BeOS as closely as possible and limit improvements to bug fixes in R1.