Alpha 1 logo and graphical stuffs

Hi Remi,

Thanks for your forum post.

I like mine (Nick) or yours (Remi).

It is a matter of whether Haiku should "scream" Alpha to users. In that case, François & Stephan's are the wallpapers that send out this message with Stephan's being the better one of the two.

Mine & yours "quietly" or gently announce that Haiku is Alpha ( less pronounced, more subtle & inviting ). Which I believe does enough to convey to users that Haiku is Alpha quality without scaring everyone away. The last two are more likely to get more and more people trying or using Haiku while still pointing out that Haiku is in Alpha phase.

This just comes down to how Haiku wants to send the message across to people looking to check out the OS.

If anyone else wants to express their opinion then now is your chance. Regards,

suuuuuuuuuper ;)

I'm voting for Jérémie's version. I would prefer that the "Alpha 1 Release" text be white instead of red; I think the red text will actually be looked over more often than if it was white, plus it clashes with the background.

The only other piece I liked was the lady bug under the "A" on Stephan's mockup. If that version is used then the typeface for "alpha 1" REALLY needs to be changed, a red box added around the text, and the text should be capitalized.

I would really like to see the lady bug moved underneath the "A" on Jérémie's disc image, and possibly add a stick bug (could be depicted as climbing the "K").

Hi, All,
Thanks for your comment,
i will modify it this evenig.The lady Bug o stephan is very cool, And i would like to put i on CD but I haven't a good source, if someone have...

Very nice artwork on the DVD disc. Excellent job.

I will point out a few things.
1) Haiku only needs CD - unless you include videos
2) File Cabinet icon is no longer used for mounted partitions - good to remove it. Might be better to include one music and video icons, etc.
3) Red color Alpha 1 Release hurts the eyes. Change the color to something less intense. Like white or really light blue, etc.

Right now the concern really is about deciding which wallpaper would be better to use on Alpha 1. Though it very likely will end up being Stephan's.

Alpha 1 is expected to be released in 2 to 3 months from now.

The devs are trying to get more organized to make this happen - making important decisions for Alpha 1.

The I/O scheduler was changed to a new, better model. This may be causing your slower speed. The I/O scheduler should be very stable for Alpha but you may or may not get the same speed as before because it works differently than the old version.

And they changed to the new model because it should be better later on. And better to do this before Alpha 1 release instead of after.

More likely it's actually related to the addition of the APIC timer preference over the PIT timer. Not all machines support APIC timers, and thus PIT still gets used for many.

On one of my machines I reverted this change to gain performance back (especially when demoing at LW2008).

And once the HPET timer is available, that will add a 3rd option which will likely take preference on machines that support it.

Of course, I could be wrong :) there has been so many changes to the repo lately, it would be hard to pinpoint performance regressions on anything specific.

what we do here in creative design won't track development 100%. But alpha does look like it's coming eventually...it's not like 5 years ago when it wasn't all clear that we would get here at all. Fortunately, Haiku was able to survive 7 years of attrition and doubters.

And this difference also explains the old status page. We didn't have a whole OS available at that time, just bits and pieces and using BeOS to fill in the gaps. Now that we have an entire OS that can stand on its own, it makes more sense to look at it as a system, a whole, and call that alpha, instead of saying BFS is beta and kernel is alpha and app server is final, etc.

The http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/R1/Alpha1Proposals page says:

Prop # 50: Distribute as ISO that functions as LiveCD
Adopted by: no one
This one should be able to install by itself.
Plain single-track ISO, or usual boot ISO + BFS track ?

Prop # 51: Distribute as Live USB stick
Adopted by: mmlr

Prop # 52: Distribute as image for emulators
Adopted by: no one
For QEMU and VMWare.

So it looks like only the implementation of one of the three proposals will transpire or 'till someone Adopts said other proposals.

well you're in the front lines in all the conventions so maybe it would be a good idea to offer CD's at the booth after introducing Haiku.

Top CD... definitely. I love the color and the spacing of everything. The lower CD is bland and grey/brown, and the spacing on certain text is messed up. I'll pay $5 for a color CD copy of Haiku Alpha 1 when it's available. Hopefully, not before too much longer.

Allowing people to purchase a $20 disc to commemorate seven years of development for Haiku's first alpha release would be an effective fund raising opportunity.

Granted, it is only an alpha, but it is a highly anticipated release by many inactive former members of the community, developer and user alike.

I can move element for a lightsrcibe label, it was only a test from the orignal coulored label

ha... yeah right apparently you haven't considered that it would be the Os PLUS ALL the sources!

if windows were to include all the sources it would take up several blurays MSDN is a couple dvds i believe

in any case the source probably isn't stable enough to include yet... so... would haiku fit on a 50mb minicd? as far as i know haiku doesn't have compressed filesystem support does it? if it did we could probably get it all on there... since LZMA has about 2x compression ratio coming out to about 45mb

Nice work Jérémie, I like it. :)

First just a little nitpicking; tradmark -> trademark, Haiku,Inc -> Haiku, Inc., right -> rights

The dot in the 'i' letters looks a bit strange, making them look like 'l's, perhaps it's the font or just the jpeg compression.

Maybe one or two more icons would look good to the left too. And, perhaps try something orange (like the leaves) if you want to make the ALPHA 1 RELEASE text stand out a bit more without clashing against the blue background.

Also, it may be wise to shoot an email to the Philips copyright office to get an OK to use their compact disc logo, I really have no idea myself. http://www.ip.philips.com has the contact details.

thought I also spend some time for the procect. This is just a quick design for a release cdrom. I will put in some more time into the desing in the coming days - so dont be to harsh...

chriskapeller

There has definitely been progress in the last month. 109 changes to the code in the last week for example. The problem is reporting these changes on the website - something that I've tried to do before and definitely will try to do again, but it is something that takes a fair amount of time and effort.

There is unlikely to be a CD release in any official sense for the first alpha however - the purpose of the thread was to design an image that clearly shows Haiku is an alpha, that would hten be put onto things like the Desktop background and the AboutSystem window. I like both the designs posted so far, but unfortunately they are not really what the project are looking for at the moment.

Simon

You're right - there is no real use for the CD-ROM logo! I will fix that in the next version...