[haiku] Re: Full-time Haiku users?
- From: bharat naik <bharat.2511@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 19:48:06 +0530
>
> I would wish that some stuff would work more reliably and some other stuff
> be
> more towards the finishing end of it's creation cycle.
>
This just highlights the lack of developers in Haiku, those who can
devote time to it regularly over a period of time. GSoC is one way to fill
this void by attracting potential developers towards Haiku. How about a
mentoring project like Apache?
As a student, I can say with conviction that students will be attracted
towards Haiku, be it in terms of documentation,development,etc.
Just my two cents.
Regards,
Bharat.
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2010-05-01 at 14:54:43 [+0200], Chris Tognela <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > For fun.
> >
> > The recent thread on backing up a Haiku installation got me wondering
> about
> > 'full-time' users.
> >
> > When you write full-time, do you mean that Haiku is your day-to-day OS?
> > What sort of tasks do you use Haiku for - what kind of user are you? Is
> > anyone still using BeOS R5 or other variants?
>
> BeOS does not run on my hardware anymore, and I wouldn't run it, since
> Haiku
> has more to offer now, including better programming APIs.
>
> I use Haiku for programming, e-mail (Beam) and web-surfing. I am not a
> heavy
> "Web" user, social networks and so on would just add even more to my
> communication overhead and make me even less productive. Further I use
> Haiku
> for graphics, I frequently use WonderBrush and for many things I do, I feel
> more comfortable using it than stuff on other platforms. However, I've had
> to
> do graphics tasks that cannot be done in WonderBrush, usually when it
> involves stuff that needs to be printed eventually. For my multi-media
> related tasks, I use MediaPlayer, when it doesn't play a movie right, I
> fall
> back to VLC. In the really rare occasion that I want to play some game,
> watch
> a DVD or play a Blu-Ray disk, I have a Windows 7 box. However, that one is
> running the RC whose license has recently expired, so it only runs two
> hours
> at a time. That I still have not fixed that tells you how seldomly I
> actually
> use Windows. Using it so rarely however makes it quite bearable.
>
> > Finally, playing devil's advocate, what do you miss on Haiku from other
> > systems?
>
> I would wish that some stuff would work more reliably and some other stuff
> be
> more towards the finishing end of it's creation cycle. For example WiFi. I
> don't use WiFi at home, but when I am at some other places, it would be
> nice
> to have it working as reliable as in Ubuntu for example. The same goes for
> other stuff, many things are only half-finished and sometimes it annoys the
> heck out of me. This goes for my own contributions as well. A lot of stuff
> I
> worked on is not finished, I brought it to a certain level of usefulness,
> then turned my attention to other areas that have bubbled up in urgency of
> receiving some love. Other developers seem to work the same. Overall, I
> wish
> there was more progress in Haiku, but recently some new developers have
> popped up and submitted patches and we have the next GSoC going, so
> hopefully
> we can enjoy some substantial progress in many areas.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>
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