[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons

"Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Helmar Rudolph <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > but there are a few things you don't seem to be getting. Correct me
> > if I'm wrong, but:
> 
> I try :-)
> 
> >     * by the time R1 as an R5 clone comes out, it will be outdated 
> > -
> >       glorious as the effort has been and will continue to be. You
> >       know that, I know that, everybody knows that. 
> 
> Please go into the details and define outdated. What part of an OS 
> has 
> innovated in the past 10 years? Can you name a lot more than GUI?
> 
One can only imagine what cool things we could do with Haiku -- modular 
and the neat little package it is, it serves well as a base for 
"research" projects (not quite sure what's being done in OS research 
these days; maybe it could be used for real academic work).  Things 
like making a Borg-style network of Haiku boxen that would let you use 
their time for processing.  Haiku is already multi-threaded, and that 
goes a long way towards clustered environments, better so than other 
operating systems!  In fact, have a look at Muscle -- the future here 
today.  Imagine being able to actually _move_ an application to another 
computer!

... anyhow, none of these things have really been done in the consumer 
market the past ten years, and as such I think Haiku/BeOS is a good 
ground to start off experimenting; to look outside the box.  Especially 
since there are no commercial interests as such.
</ramble>

> 
> 
> > And in case it still hasn't sunk in: keep GE a talk-shop and
> > postpone any kind of decision until the release of R1, and chances
> > are that there won't be an R2 - at least not one that matters and
> > that goes beyond an item of curiosity. 
> 
> R2 won't be the holy grail. The problem with wanting to change the 
> way 
> of computing is that most of those that tried failed miserably; we'll 
> be very careful with that :-)
>
Right, incremental releases.  And as Axel stated previously; Rn is just 
that -- a release. A tag for a specific changeset. Really, think about 
it.
 

-- Mikael

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