[haiku] Re: Just an idea
- From: Matt Hood <matthood0@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 19:27:35 +1000
I was having a bit of a think today. Given BeOS's media focus, it would make
sense to target the creative crowd. What if the devs could implement some kind
of distributed computing system? Essentially a Beowulf cluster (or render
farm), but built into the OS. It would need to be very easy to set up, I'd
imagine it'd need a good API to go with it, and work over LAN. This would be a
great way for people to reuse old computers laying around; just install Haiku,
and enable distribution.
I realise that it'd be a pretty massive job, but it'd be worth it to have that
kind of niche. What do you think?
On 07/06/2013, at 10:16, Alan Burkes <firstakir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2013 4:57 PM, "Jeff KP3FT" <kp3ft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I agree, targeting niches would help. One niche it already has is
> > TuneTracker, which we've been using for years to run our FM radio station.
> > With the upcoming LPFM application window that the FCC is opening, there
> > may possibly be some increased interest in Haiku/TuneTracker by people who
> > are looking for an inexpensive and dependable radio-automation system.
> >
> >
> > I would love to see software geared towards media. A user-friendly
> > audio-editing program similar to Audacity would be nice. I remember BeOS
> > being promoted as the "Media OS", but don't know if Haiku is promoted as
> > the same.
> >
> >
> > Also, for a possible and likely niche, several in the Amateur Radio crowd
> > would probably become serious Haiku enthusiasts if there was Amateur Radio
> > software written for it. Much of Amateur Radio is heavily based on
> > software... the Amateur frequencies are loaded with all kinds of digital
> > communications using a computer connected to a transceiver, including for
> > example weak-signal digi communication via reflecting signals off the Moon
> > back to Earth (Earth-Moon-Earth, or "EME").
> >
> > Amateur Radio is, by nature, experimental, and radio amateurs love to try
> > new things. I remember using software many years ago written for DOS to
> > communicate around the world with an old IBM XT and a homemade interface
> > connecting the computer to the transceiver. With the speed and efficiency
> > of Haiku, I bet digital-communication software would be more effective in
> > decoding received digital signals than the present multitude of Windows
> > software. Linux has software as well, but very little compared to Windows.
> In my personal opinion, we are not putting enough effort into the ARM port,
> and I arrived at that opinion because I see the rise of inexpensive
> multi-core ARM systems popping up literally everywhere, and that's somewhere
> Haiku would really thrive; environments that don't necessarily have a lot of
> RAM or a very fast processor. I think ARM-based computers are the niche that
> Haiku needs to fill to be successful. Imagine if the Raspberry Pi ran Haiku!
>
> We missed the boat to get into the netbook craze, but there are still people
> who want simple network machines to do simpler tasks, and I feel that Haiku
> can be that OS.
>
> That and I have always wanted to run haiku on a tablet and see how well the
> UI would stand to my stubby fingers. :P
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