Yes you read that right, Gobe Productive v2.0.1 works in Haiku (as of rev22724)!! The following screenshot should send shockwaves through the BeOS/Haiku community!

















Earlier today I updated some info for ticket #562. I was playing around with Gobe, and noticed it stuck on libprefs. Anyways, it seems that libprefs kept looping, and was all that was preventing Gobe from starting up. This bugfix may allow many other apps to run in Haiku, as it's a common library (i.e NetPenguin now works).

I've played with GoBE Productive for half an hour now, and it seems remarkedly stable. Gobe Productive is a unique piece of software, and one of the darlings of BeOS software. This will surely fill a much needed gap in the office suite department, despite the software's age! It's also testament to the vision of enabling backwards compatibility to BeOS applications, and how good Haiku is at it. This single application may allow some to actually use Haiku daily (if you still have a license kicking around).

*update... ok, so the 'clock frame' brings Gobe to a halt, but that's really all I could find that will crash it so far.

It seems some of these bugs are really just trivial, and shows how stable Haiku is underneath... It also shows how important it is to test software and submit bug reports ;). Thanks to Axel, who, like it's his job, applied the fixes within hours.

For instance, another really good software, MeTOS, was fixed with this ticket#1553. The results here:

















A great day for Haiku!!