[haiku-development] Re: Handling ABI changes with packages buildbots
- From: kallisti5 <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 10:42:57 -0500
MacBook Pro <rhoulihan52@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
who would want to use this os
This is all not really appropriate conversation for this mailing list.
If you don't have interest in developing Haiku, then I don't understand
why you are subscribed to this list in the first place.
On 2017-10-07 03:40, Josh Wright wrote:
For me, I run three Raspberry Pi’s and the only word processor I use
on them is Nano. :)
If Haiku could be used on Raspberry Pi’s as a classroom O/S to teach
programming, a penetration testing O/S as an alternative to Kali, or
an IoT O/S so I could run Homebridge on it, I would be more than
happy. :)
We have a Raspberry Pi port, and are working towards a "generic" arm
image that can be "prepared" for various ARM platforms. (via a tool i'm
writing:
https://github.com/kallisti5/rune-image)
If Haiku could run a rock-solid web server, email server, file server
- or an other type of server - I would be even more happy.
That really doesn't fit-in with our target market and doesn't play
for our strengths.
Finally, if Haiku could find a niche in the same way that AmigaOS did
in nineties video and television production, that, I’m sure, would be
the icing on the cake.
This does fit in slightly better with our target market.
Over the last few years, we are hitting a lot of the difficulties
Linux had going into the desktop market. (luckily Linux did end up
being a *great* server choice)
With our package and port system, a lot of these issues have been
reduced since we now can port Linux software and rebuild the packages
reliably.
Linus's famous law is hitting us hard at the moment:
"Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"
We really don't have enough eyes lately looking at the sources since
we haven't hit critical mass yet with a final release. There are a
handful of developers keeping things alive and slowly improving.
The only way to exit this rut I see is to get a release out the door.
However, we have been encountering issues gaining enough momentum.
Where I personally think Haiku fits in is the perfect mix between
Linux and OS X. We offer a powerful Posix-like UNIX environment with
a stable ecosystem you can make a lot of assumptions about writing
software.
We don't have the "every distro is a snowflake" issue linux has, but
are more open than OS X's walled garden.
We need help. We need the community to step in and try to be more
proactive.
I'm really hopeful when I see people who makes posts like this:
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/bug-xhci-usb-3-0-issues/5895/3
We need more people like Greg :-)
-- Alex
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