Second Beta Release of Timberwolf

[SysAdmin]

News via amigaworld.net

The second public beta release is currently uploading to os4depot.net

This new version improves some features of the first beta, and fixes some of the bugs. In essence, the main improvements are as follows:

- Splash screen when starting up (to show something is happening)
- Crash fixes. For example, clicking the zip box no longer crashes
- Right-click popup menus work now
- Downloads work now
- Timberwolf now uses a native ASL file requester instead of the alien file picker

[Dragster]

Interesting but still needs tons of work... downloads do work now as long as you don't download anything to ram disk:... GUI is still slow and so is render speed. Nice, but still not usable.  

Good work tho!

Cheers,
Dragster

[Iggy]

And, of course, you could always just use Fab's version of OWB which works fine and doesn't have any significant bugs.

[Delta]

OWB is great but having timberwolf working is also very important.   The bigger choice of softwares we have the better.

[haywirepc]

Are they ever going to release the source code per the gpl of firefox or do they still planning on trying to illegally keep their port closed source and try and charge people money for a firefox port which violates the gpl?
 
And why won't anyone answer this very valid question anywhere?

[drHirudo]

Are they ever going to release the source code per the gpl of firefox or do they still planning on trying to illegally keep their port closed source and try and charge people money for a firefox port which violates the gpl?
 
And why won't anyone answer this very valid question anywhere?

Mozilla Firefox is not under GPL, it's under MPL

[Argo]

And, of course, you could always just use Fab's version of OWB which works fine and doesn't have any significant bugs.

You do understand what a Beta is...

[Krischan76]

And why won't anyone answer this very valid question anywhere?

You might wanna try to ask that on AW.net, Amigans.net or hyperion.biz. ;-)

[spirantho]

It's already been asked there... and answered.

[Varthall]

Aren't the donations to Timberwolf voluntary?

Varthall

[amigadave]

I hate to mention this, and I know I will probably get flamed for it, but am I the only OS4.1.5 user that has any concern that the amount of time coding Timberwolf is taking coding time away from finishing drivers for the SAM460ex and AmigaOne X1000, plus other parts of OS4.1.x?

I mean the amount of programming resources available to Hyperion for working on OS4.1.x and beyond is very limited.

Or are there different programmers who are assigned to work on drivers and work on Timberwolf has no effect on anything else that needs to be done on drivers and other parts of OS4.x?

Not meant to be a criticism, but just a concern I have thought of once or twice.

[Daedalus]

@amigadave

Well, since they're doing it in their spare time, it shouldn't have too much of an impact. Hyperion aren't paying them to work on Timberwolf so if they don't work on the OS, they don't get paid. I guess they just spend all their waking hours coding :p


@haywirepc

If you're actually interested in the source code and not just trolling, they will of course give it to you. All you have to do is ask.

[koaftder]

They're not breaking any rules, but you have to admit that requiring people to ask for code to an open source project is obnoxious, antisocial and goes against the grain of what opensource is all about. The brothers should have just put it out on github instead of blowing their gaskets and acting like brats on the forum when asked about the situation with the code.

[takemehomegrandma]

@amigadave

Well, since they're doing it in their spare time, it shouldn't have too much of an impact.

You do understand that *everything* is being developed in *everyone's* spare time, don't you?

[smf]

Timberwolf evolves nicely, if the updates continues to come within a few weeks between them timberwolf will soon become a good alternative to OWB. i guess there will be atleast 2 more updates before it's time to work on the performance and then the fun will start  for now it loads most sites within an resonable time but some others like facebooks seems to be hopeless, maybe something to do with network activity? even searching/connecting to a page eats lots of cpu for a long time. The gui works good & i can live with the slow scrolling speed for now so there's not really that much to fix before it can be an everyday browser.