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PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 8:47 pm   Post subject: Ask Bill Hayden Anything. Reply with quote   Next

Please post your questions to Bill Hayden here.

The BeOSJournal will compile the ten most "interesting" questions for him, and conduct the interview shortly thereafter.

Good luck.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 3:41 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote  Previous Next

Question:
- How do you feel about other people submitting code, changing code you have put in Cosmoe? Taking the example of Kurt and AtheOS, which is opensource but he likes to code it himself. (Chris, not the best way to put this question, see if you can... "refine" it a bit)

Question:
- The first developer release is intended for Linux only, what's the ETA (if possible to give one) of a release people can test running on BeOS and/or Windows?

I'll try to gather/think of some more.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 5:30 pm   Post subject: Questions for Bill Hayden Reply with quote  Previous Next

Reluctantly, I believe the decision to use a Linux kernel is a sound one. There is so much new hardware support and development from companies like IBM and Sun. However, the BeOS kernel has some interesting benefits like file system add-ons, that I am concerned that we would lose in the process. Do you see any ability to provide this level of compatibility with the existing BeOS kernel?

What can the BeOS user/developer community do to support your efforts?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:56 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote  Previous Next

When you release Cosmoe, what support for alternate languages will it have natively?

I ask because I come from the Netherlands, and speaking English is not my strong point.

Thank you.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:59 pm   Post subject: Why? Reply with quote  Previous Next

Why not put the effort into the OpenBeOS or Glass Elevator projects? Do we really need another OS project?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:11 am   Post subject: Well... Reply with quote  Previous Next

To my layman's ears this seems to be an extremely ambitious project. Being more or less compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac and BeOS... Frankly, it sounds a bit monstrous to me.

Are you still on your own on this project or have others joined in? And by that I don't mean mailing you with their enthusiasm and promising some code snippets some time in the future.

You mention that the components are under different licenses, according from where you grabbed them; GPL, LGPL, BSD... What license will you use for code that you'll do from scratch? Could other projects like OBOS use those, should they be interested?

Bill Hayden sounds a bit familiar. Did you do some development under BeOS? If yes, which apps and when and why did you leave?

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 11:13 am   Post subject: Reply with quote  Previous Next

hehehe... oops, didn't read it carefully enough icon_redface.gif
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 8:16 am   Post subject: Localization Reply with quote  Previous 

alex wrote:
When you release Cosmoe, what support for alternate languages will it have natively?

I ask because I come from the Netherlands, and speaking English is not my strong point.

Thank you.


There are alread a significant( +/- 30) amount of apps translated in dutch, so Why.
Translations of more apps will follow in time.

Grts
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