[openbeos] Re: The Newbie perspective
- From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:50:31 -0400
I extracted a portion of this to respond to...
I know that I am late to responding; I was out of town.
A lot of the introductory stuff that other operating systems have, we couldn't
write right now if we wanted to. We can't write about how to install because
the installer isn't written. We can't show screenshots because the app_server
and kernel really aren't ready yet. Etc. I have explained this a number of
times in a number of circumstances, but the fact that people are still asking
the question leads me to believe that either they aren't seeing what I wrote or
are not understanding and/or believing it. We need to work on that.
As far as a hardware compatability list, when we are further along, we will
publish such a thing. BeUnited has offered to help with it, since we are their
reference implementation. This hasn't been much of a focus since, as others
have said, the people who would be most likely to write it are busy developing
drivers.
As far as user documentation (like, say, a users guide), this does need to be
written. I have a number of ideas on this, as do others, but it hasn't been a
high priority; I would rather wait until we are closer to complete. That way we
can use real screenshots, etc.
Michael
On 2004-07-13 at 01:13:05 [-0400], Miguel Zúñiga González wrote:
> I read from your sources that only 1% of the people in the computer world
> know the OSBOS, but that is, in part, because we (please, let me say we) lack
> of newbie documentation available from the official sites. I mean general
> information, focused information and information relative to all of this, but
> in a basic view. What do I mean? Just look at your forum: people are asking
> how to install Haiku-OS, how to deal with it, and why they do not see any
> graphical interface when they load (if they could) the Haiku-loader.
>
> When you have M$ Windows or an almost commercial distribution of Linux, there
> are some files to help you to know the system. We have to have them done. But
> in the Haiku site there is no way to know how to get into the BeOS, Haiku
> official documentation, or the status of the different teams. I know all you
> know how to, but as a newbie I remember all the time I spent to get the BeOS
> DevEd, or to have the drivers I did not have, etcetera.
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