An introduction to the Haiku OS

Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by tophat02 on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:44PM (#2069440)

This shouldn't be an issue, but I'm afraid it is: it still looks like a late-90s OS. That should be a top priority for the Haiku project.

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by beoba on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:45PM (#2069443)

Yeah, get some lens flare and transparent windows in there!

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by ihodes on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:49PM (#2069454)

Or, you know, text smoothing. Antialiasing. Silly stuff like that ;)

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by sp332 on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @06:36AM (#2070680)

Haiku icons are actually stored in a vector format instead of bitmap. That means all icons are resolution-independent and antialiased. Also, since the format was designed for icons, the filesize is so small that the data will usually fit in the same block as inode data, so the file takes effectively 0 space on the HD!

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by i80and on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:20PM (#2069533)

Haiku... has font smoothing? In fact, they just recently activated hinting. Icons are anti-aliased too. I guess I'm unclear on what you're saying.

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by brewin on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @10:07PM (#2069665)

Haiku has sub-pixel rendering and every drawing operation is antialiased.

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by pyre on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @02:43AM (#2070289)

  > every drawing operation is antialiased.

I'm hoping that's optional. It seems like there are a lot of things that you might not want to be auto-magically AA'd.

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by ugh on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:03PM (#2069488)

Awww, hackers who hate what they call “eye candy”. It warms my heart!

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by pyre on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @02:44AM (#2070295)

I know! It's not a real operating system until you can make it do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfRpmqKRbs

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by dkersten on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @10:35PM (#2069748)

You forgot drop shadows.

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Re:An introduction to the Haiku OS by Neodudeman on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:57PM (#2069476)

I agree. Get Michael Bay to add the explosions, and everyone bring out your 3D glasses.

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