- backend
+ [[ Booh ]]
+
+''The Web-Album of choice for discriminating Linux users''
+
+Booh stands for Best web-album Of the world, Or your money back,
+Humerus.
+
+The acronyn sucks, however this is a tribute to Dragon Ball by
+Akira Toriyama, where the last enemy beaten by heroes of Dragon
+Ball is named "Boo". But there was already a free software
+project called Boo, so this one will be it "Booh". Or whatever.
+
+Ah, and this is free software under the GPL license version 2
+(not "or upper"), by the way.
+
+
+Booh is a static Web-Album generator. It's a program that takes
+one or several series of photos and videos, and automatically
+build static web pages to browse them, creating thumbnails etc.
+
+Check out booh's homepage for more information (just search for
+"booh linux" in google, you should be fine with first match).
+
+
+Highlights:
+
+ backend:
- automatically rotates portrait images thanks to exif info
- great themability
- immediate display of next image (preloading of next images)
- keep position in browser between images (no page load between images)
- multiproc support (parallelize image creations)
-- advanced videos support (thumbnail etc)
+- advanced videos support (thumbnail, embedded flash playback etc)
- correctly handle files and directories with spaces and non
US-ASCII characters (even if I _don't_ advice you to store
files with these)
- cookie to remember the preferred size of thumbnails accross sub-albums
- subalbums support (images in any subdirectory depth)
- frontend
+ frontend:
-- very advanced capabilities by keyboard shortcuts
+- very advanced capabilities by keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures
+- input captions, rotate, reorder and remove images FAST
-
+ classifier:
- P4 HT 2.8 GHz, Linux 2.6.6 SMP 4G
+- FAST loading of photos and videos into thumbnails (loads about
+ 5 2.4 MB photos per second on a p4)
+- FAST navigation while loading in background, preloading of
+ surrounding thumbnails
+- keyboard shortcuts for navigation and classifying
+
+Performance improvements thanks to SMP support:
-Regular:
- 125.61user 5.17system 2:10.81elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
+ P4 HT 2.8 GHz, Linux 2.6.6 SMP 4G
---mproc 2:
- 234.92user 6.77system 2:01.44elapsed 199%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
+Regular: 2:10.81
+--mproc 2: 2:01.44
+--mproc 4: 2:02.03
---mproc 4:
- 233.35user 6.57system 2:02.03elapsed 196%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
+ 6-way Pentium-3 Cascades 700 MHz:
+Regular: 2:58.07
+--mproc 2: 1:32.48
+--mproc 3: 1:03.34
+--mproc 4: 0:49.12
+--mproc 5: 0:40.86
+--mproc 6: 0:39.03 (I should have killed those useless apache processes!)
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