Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>AWN is in the repos, its an OS X Dock clone for Linux
>> which pretty much does everything the real thing does except for those
>> neat expanding folders.
> 
> Oh, no, really, it isn't and doesn't. I tried it and found it an
> appalling tacky toy, incapable of almost any of the real Dock's
> functionality. It's what you'd get if someone who had never used a Mac
> and had only read a couple of reviews and based your impression of
> what the Dock was on a screenshot.
> 
> AWN is a rather clumsy app launcher and switcher.
> 
> To say that is what the Dock is like saying that Paul Allen's
> /Octopus/ is a yacht. 

Well, it's not.  A yacht has sails, and Octopus is just a massive stinkpot - 
but then I may be a little biased...

-- 
derek