[haiku] Re: Updated website pages online for peer review
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:58:44 -0700
Hi Jonas,
Jonas Sundström wrote:
"Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Howdy,
I have started updating the content on the new website; the following
are a few pages that have been updated and are now online for peer
review:
http://production.web.haiku-os.org/about
1. I've never really liked the following content, in the old
form or in this new form. It doesn't really say anything
(relative to what everyone else is saying about their projects)
except that Haiku is open source and inspired by the BeOS.
"Haiku is an open source operating system currently in
development that specifically targets personal computing.
Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become
a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet
very powerful system for computer users of all levels."
OK, so, you don't like it. So, shat should it say then?
2. I'm not so fond of the expression "means to an end".
Especially not "the ideal means to the end of personal
computing". I understand what it means. I just think it
back-fires. ("the end of personal computing") I would
cut out any and all use of "means to an end".
Yeah, I removed that.
3. Are the grey boxes with links in serif font meant
to be BButtons?
No, they are just meant to be buttons.
http://production.web.haiku-os.org/about/history
The above page is not meant to be all-inclusive; if you know of any
milestone worth listing, please let me know.
http://production.web.haiku-os.org/about/codebase
I expected more focus on Haiku itself and less on the
external code we put to good use. Some people might get
the impression that we're just another distro, and that
one can easily get something akin to Haiku by simply
stringing together agg+freetype+ffmpeg.
I think the page would be great as it is if the title
was not "Haiku Code Base" but instead "Other People's
code you may recognize in Haiku" or "Code we stole"
or whatever, and making it clear that those are just
pieces of Haiku.
The motivation for adding this kind of information is that, in my
experience (from the many shows/conferences I have done), people not
familiar with Haiku are very dis/mis-informed about the Haiku code base.
A lot of people don't know that we do use quite a bit of open source
code (which is a good thing IMHO), and there are also those that think
that Haiku uses the BeOS code.
So this page is not meant to list what code we borrowed, but rather show
some of the bits and pieces used here and there in Haiku in order to
educate those who are not familiar with our project/system. I highly
doubt that anyone could take from this that Haiku is just another distro.
Cheers,
Jorge/aka Koki
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