[haiku] Re: [GSsC] usermode Haiku or file system development
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:34:41 +0200 CEST
Le Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:27:04 +0200, PulkoMandy a écrit :
> Le Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:15:40 +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu
> <lucian.grijincu@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
>
> > I see it like ndiswrapper was for Linux a few years ago, and for
> > some
> > cards still is: we can have the functionality here and now. We
> > benefit
> > from having happier users (which might or might not turn into
> > developers) and from having time to work on more important tasks.
> > Eventually, as the development team grows, if it is seen necessary,
> > such external dependencies can be shed in favor of internally
> > developed ones.
>
> Mh... Haiku being a BSD-Licensed project, I don't think it's a good
> idea
> to include the linux kernel as a 'core' component, knowing it's
> GPLed. The
> project may be nice as a thing external to haiku, adding extra
> functionnality (I personally doesn't thing it's a clean way to do it
> and I
> know some people are worried by Qt being available on haiku, for
> example).
> But I don't think you can expect it to be a GSoC project with full
> support
> from Haiku. That's my personal opinion, of course other mentors may
> think
> otherwise.
I'd rather see drivers for existing virtualization solution (some
people started working on VirtualBox Guest additions, but what about
Xen ?) to allow serving Haiku desktops to thin clients :P
François.
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