Lots of Haiku and Zeta news this weekend. Firstly, the latest Haiku image is now making use of the new, improved Deskbar and Tracker with support for scalable vector graphics. Also Stephan Assmus’ award winning icon set, Stippi, has been included. Secondly, better support for Japanese is now available on Zeta. Thirdly, there is now a driver for Intel Extreme chipsets for both Zeta and Haiku. Lastly, BeOSNews.com has a guide on using Aspell on BeOS.
What’s up with the marijuana icon on the upper left hard drive?
http://joomla.iscomputeron.com/images/stories/916/haiku.png
Marijuana is green.
Not if you dry it out.
The shape certainly looks like it. They should have used the Haiku kind-of-leaf for an icon.
I’ve seen green, red, even brown, blackish, and orangey.
I agree, the leaf by itself would’ve been better.
The shape looks more like a maple leaf.
If it’s at all decent it stays pretty green even when it’s dry. If your stuff is turning brown I recommend finding a new supplier.
I guess now we know where Stippi gets his inspirational jive from
anyway, it’s looking very nice and professional. I’m guessing the biggest hurdle between now and an r1 release is getting the new network stack up and running.
edit: stippi provides some interesting information regarding the haiku svg icon implementation on the haiku homepage: http://haiku-os.org/node/280
Edited 2006-11-06 23:10
I think it looks cool. It’s kinda like a suggestion that Haiku is open, in many ways…
you haven’t seen a marijuana leaf don’t you?
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/images/2003/12/22/leaf.gif
too thick leaves to be a marijuana leaf if you ask me. Not very similar, could be any three with 5 split leaves..
I love the clean look of Haiku, more than Zeta’s added bevel-shiny-crap. Great progress is being made.
Here’s what I think of the BeOS and Haiku intefaces:
They are certainly nice and clean, but…
I used to use BeOS back in the day and I thought it was great. It had some amazing capabilities. However, it was almost impossible to convince people of that because of the UI.
I tried to get some of my friends and family to use BeOS, but they wouldn’t because to them the UI looked cheap and old (their words, not mine).
While I’m not a big fan of wasting CPU cycles and memory to make my virtual desktops turn into a cube or my windows wiggle like Jell-o, I think Haiku needs to give potential users an interface that showcases its abilities and makes people say, “Wow!” Right now it doesn’t.
I think it was OS X’s “Wow!” factor that made people take notice of Apple. Prior to that, most PC people wouldn’t have given Apple a second thought (I know I never did).
Haiku needs something like that. Clean is nice, but nowadays, flash, gradients, and animations sell. Have the option to turn it off, of course, but it needs to be there to get people excited about Haiku, I think.
Yes I’m sure there’s always lots being made, but I don’t follow Haiku closely enough that trolling through lots of BeOS sites is worthwhile.
I like it. I also think Beos still looks pretty sharp and I’m looking foward playing around with the first available copy.
Good work guys.
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I keep watching the cvs for checkins, lovely watching Haiku progress. Love the look.
I’m pleased I’m not the only one that thought that. I’m not really a fan of that particular icon, but as a set it’s looking good.
Would be good to see the generic icon in Haiku colours, green, orange and yellow as opposed to red, blue and yellow.
Would be good to see the generic icon in Haiku colours, green, orange and yellow as opposed to red, blue and yellow.
Agreed!
In fact, this was reason I really liked Kabuto – because the generic icon was very Haiku-ish in color.
Doubt anyone cares…it’s not a big deal, but it’s not weed (unless the designer has never seen a weed leaf). Marijuana leaves are compound. That looks like it’s supposed to be a maple leaf or gum tree.
… in fall.
You know, I can look at haiku with that icon set for hours and never get tired, this is really a good sign.
thanks for your hard work stippi!
Maybe it automatically changes as the seasons change 🙂
Maybe it automatically changes as the seasons change 🙂
And what hemisphere you’re in…
Perhaps it could be based on weather descriptions?
that Zeta/BeOS/Haiku can manage to get 1280×1024 res with millions of colours but Xorgs drivers are still hosed with a paltry showing of 1024×768 no acceleration, and misidentifying the GMA950 . . .
don’t mod me down now you linux nuts; just go to your favorite distro’s web board and search for “GMA950”, it’s been a problem chip for linux now for an embarrassing amount of time that everyone knows about and you can’t blame intel cause the reference drivers with source is available.
GO HAIKU!!!!
Isn’t haiku using generic VESA3 with that chipset? I dont know at all, but if thats the case, then its really nothing special. even windows XP will do that
I’m not checking this project daily but last time I checked they were still trying to have a working kernel… Is it over now ? I mean, is Haiku able to display that Tracker/ UI using 100% “haiku stuff” ? Or are they still running their tests on the original BeOS kernel ?
Haiku uses “own” (NewOS based) kernel for a long time now.
If Haiku used BeOS kernel there would be no disk images on http://haiku-os.org/factory because it would be illegal to distribute BeOS kernel in any other form than original BeOS 5 PE installation.
Haiku is able to do all that off of it’s own back. Take it for a spin using VMWare (or Parallels) and an image from HaikuHost. I think you’ll be pleasantly suprised.
http://haikuhost.com/housestrain/
I’ve been tooling with it for a couple of days. While there’s not a whole lot to do as far as apps go (I have had luck loading apps off of a BeOS Max disk), it certainly showcases the sheer perseverance of the dev team. Given a solid 1.0 release down the track, Haiku will certainly be a nice alternative to Windows.
Check it out.
Edited 2006-11-07 10:07
I’ve just tried latest hd image and thanks to BGA fixes i don’t have to remove radeon driver before booting my laptop to Haiku anymore!
Anyone else that was thrown into the KDL during first time boot in Wmware?
Maybe this is a known bug, well just try to reboot and it will boot fine during second boot.
/Konrad
Did it work on your second or third boot? 🙂
Since I allowed the VM to free no longer used areas (because of fork), the system sometimes accesses memory that’s already gone – so it’s a known bug, if that’s what happened to you. If Ithamar doesn’t beat me, I’ll work on this after networking.
It worked on my second boot!
so it’s a known bug, if that’s what happened to you
I assume that’s the occasional “double fault” KDL? I sometimes see that on first boot in VMWare also… but it’s not consistent.
I had the same problem in Parallels, and I had to resize the disk image to 120MB.
I love their new icon set. I think its clean and still BeOSish. Great work guys. And to the title here at Osnews, it doesnt not have a new Tracker/Deskbar. If you read Stippi’s post its using translators/IconUtils.
I’m just glad to see BeOS being kept alive like this. It was and still is an awesome OS.
Read about this some day ago, impressive. Axel and the good bunch at haiku-os rox!
No news about the next BeGeistert? It has been announced!