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I've been following the Haiku project for a bit and I find it quite nice to bring back to life the old BeOS. It was without a doubt a good OS back in the days and I'm sure that if it was luckier and with some more advertisement it would be really bid today.

However there are features that are lacking really bad (and this is my point of view, so please, don't see this as an attack to the project).

In my view Haiku misses one big issue to make it an OS to the people, it misses a localization kit. Something that will format currencies, numbers, text alignment, dates and the whole texts on the base applications to the language and locale of the user. I think this would break the wall of non english speakers to use Haiku.

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Hi all -

I saw that there's an IDE coming for Haiku (called GeneStation - interesting name... :-) ).

There's another *excellent* IDE worth looking at for Haiku as well, called Geany - ( http://geany.uvena.de/ ). It is small, fast, very clean layout and *beautifully* designed. Well worth having a look at. I think its license is GPL ( so that may be a problem), but I just thought I'd mention it. Always good to see what's out there.... ;-).
- latte

Lo everyone,

Seems progress is happening all over the place and I do know it's not yet time to release an Alpha. However, I'd like to bring up 2-3 things that will become increasingly important as this Alpha stage get closer.

1. Live CD
Not sure what the status is on this functionality but I definitely believe that this would be a brilliant way for people to test whether hardware plays along or not before doing a complete install. This is NOT meant to stress the issue. However, I would consider this a milestone, just as being selfhosting (even though it might not be the same size of milestone). How about adding a milestone in the Dev/Tasks section about this issue to make it easier to track?

2. HW DB?