[haiku-development] Re: What's the status of Haiku?
- From: LECOQ Vincent <vincent.lecoq@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:48:40 +0200
Calm down guys ;)
I think the base idea of haiku was to have a revival of the holy BeOS.
But where ?
- In the userland only ? to have all the cool beAps working natively
linked to a libBeOs.so on an other OS or by a wrapping like a wine way ?
- In the kernel land ? to have a cool OS isofunctionnal with BeOS 5 or 6 ?
(I think Haiku have overtake the line, BeOS was unable to use correctly any
networks as example)
- In the spirit of BeInc ? have a cool OS stronger faster better easyer
for the users ?
Apple was in front on the same choice for Rapsodhy.
Haiku is already better thant beOS have never be on many points, its an
excellent and impressive project.
BeOs is dead, long life to haiku.
But Haiku dont boot yet on my laptop :/
2014-08-25 13:33 GMT+02:00 Sia Lang <silverlanguage@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> But then you have never clearly stated what your goals are and who the
>> audience is.
>>
>
> Good point. See below.
>
>
>> So what’s the expectation? That switching to a Linux kernel will lead to
>> a massive influx of users
>> building modern, cool BeAPI apps?
>>
>
> The opportunity I see is this: The BeAPI is a *good* API. Writing native
> gui apps on Linux and OSX isn't exactly my favorite activity, even with
> innovations like Swift and the llvm stack. And desktop Linux isn't going
> anywhere because it's a verifiable mess of window managers and toolkits.
>
> If you believe BeOS was a promising desktop (which admittedly need some
> modernizing), then there's a big fat hole in the market. BUT, it requires a
> solid foundation with enough drivers for wifi, printers, gpu's, ...
>
> If you don't believe that, then what the heck is the point anyway?
>
>
>> That’s why for me Haiku should just embrace its hobbyist status.
>>
>
> Ah, so that's the point. Well, it's just not interesting to me to work on
> an OS project for decades without the prospect of it getting used widely.
> That's just intellectual masturbation (which is a popular activity, but I
> actually don't think this is all that pervasive in the haiku dev community.)
>
> There's room for Haiku beyond the hobbyist space, and I'm merely pondering
> how to get there practically. Let's give it a chance.
>
> Sia.
>
>
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