[haiku] Re: Haiku timeline and being released
- From: Jason McArdle <jasonmm1979@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:36:56 -0400
I guess I'm what you'd call a curious enthusiast. :)
Unfortunately I don't have any programming skills. I've tried my hand at it
numerous times, but I just can't seem to "get it" for whatever reason.
I've tried many different operating systems as I tend to have an aversion
to Windows. Mac OS X is nice, but I'm not a fan of the closed garden aspect
for everything. Linux seems way too fragmented... there are hundreds of
distributions for everything and undocumented changes between
distributions, the kernel can be slightly different between distributions
as well from what I've heard, I've tried a bit of FreeBSD also, and I find
it WAY too complicated and cumbersome. I had a tough enough time just
trying to install the thing!
I remember messing around with BeOS a bit in the late 1990s and I enjoyed
it.
As far as my background goes, I've done a couple Wordpress blogs in the
past. I've also done some bug testing on software for a game company...
offered suggestions and advice on how I think things should look/go. I've
done some social media work and search engine optimization on the internet
as well.
I've always had lots of ideas about various things, but never the skills to
act on anything unfortunately. I've been thinking of some ideas for Haiku
also.
Could Haiku be reworked for mobile devices? I was thinking if it could be
licensed out for various platforms similar to Android. I tend to keep on a
lot of tech news and from what I've heard, Android is starting to become
pretty heavy with viruses and the like. It's just with the way things are
now, I don't see the computer as a very central device anymore. Everyone
(around here anyways) tends to have mobile devices.
Also, why the name change to Haiku? It was originally OpenBeos if I
remember... why was the Haiku name chosen?
That's just a bit of history and things about myself. I'd love to do
anything to help.
Thanks!
Jason
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:14 AM, scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Jason McArdle <jasonmm1979@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > From what I understand Haiku hasactually been around for quite a while...
> > 2001 if I,m correct.
> >
> > That,s quite a long time, I think. How muck work still has to be done?
> Will
> > it even still be officially ready and released? It would just suck if
> > everyone,s hard eork wasn,t rewarded and people ended up doing this for
> > nothing.
> >
> > I'm just curious on a lot of things that's all.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
>
> Jason,
> True, Haiku was named around 2004, but dates back to 2001. That is a
> long time, but it's not nearly as old as Unix, which dates back to
> 1970, or Windows which dates back to 1985 or so, or Linux which dates
> back to 1991. Even OS X which was first released in 1999 dates back to
> the mid to late 1980s. By that scale Haiku is still young. It will
> one day be released, but there's some things that the core developers
> want to have finished before that will happen. The main remaining
> road block is package management, which looks like it will receive a
> pair for developer contracts to work on it in the very near future.
> That may not complete that work, but should move it pretty far along.
> No one really knows when R1 will be released, but R1Alpha4 is just
> around the corner now, and will be fairly stable. Don't worry about
> the developers not being rewarded. We all do this for different
> reasons, and for most of us, that isn't for money. We each get
> different rewards from Haiku such as improving our coding skills,
> learning new things, helping to build something much bigger and better
> than any of us could have done alone, etc, etc. So it won't have been
> done for nothing. BeOS is dead because the company behind it is no
> longer around. We didn't want that to happen to Haiku so we made it
> open source. Haiku will probably live on way past any of us. I
> wouldn't be surprised if people are reading this about how Haiku
> started and evolved 100+ years from now.
> Are you a programmer or just a curious onlooker?
>
> -scottmc
>
>
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