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Technix · Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 8:47 pm1 Post subject: Ask Bill Hayden Anything.

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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DaaT · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 3:41 pm2 Post subject:

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.

DaaT
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kmusick · NewBe Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 5 Location: Gilbert, AZ

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?

alex · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:56 pm4 Post subject:

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.

Zaranthos · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:59 pm5 Post subject: Why?

Why not put the effort into the OpenBeOS or Glass Elevator projects? Do we really need another OS project?

lichtgestalt · Pencil Pusher Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: KDL

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?

DaaT: Your 1st question is answered in the FAQ

DaaT · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 11:13 am7 Post subject:

hehehe... oops, didn't read it carefully enough

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Zathros · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 8:16 am8 Post subject: Localization