Related interview with VitruvianOS dev:
https://www.desktoponfire.com/interview/846/an-interview-wit...
VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
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Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what we needed in our OSes instead of Firefox tabs.
How is it that different?
basically every app is a tab. this is how I run i3wm. full screen tabbed layout. smaller modal windows still appear in their normal smaller windows in front of the current full screen app.
Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
But Vitruvian is running its own graphics stack so no X11 or wayland applications will run afaict.
So what's the point of this -- it's essentially a different Haiku?
I think itbis the reverse, it is haiku with a linux kernel so it works with more hardware.
Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#94The important question becomes can you stack the window decoration "tabs" of different apps into a single stack of tabs like in BeOS? Demonstrated here (animated): https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/images/gui-images...
I used to run fluxbox in the early 2000s. I greatly miss tabbing any windows like that.
I believe the Cosmic Desktop from Pop OS has that again
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#95I bought an Amiga in the early 90's and enjoyed it immensely. Commodore went under and Amiga died. I bought BeOS in the late 90's and enjoyed it immensely like a breath of fresh air in a sewage pipe. BeOS died. With my track record I really, really should've bought Windows. Twice, to make sure.
I think I did this with phones. WebOS, BB10, Windows Phone 7 & 8. All dead lol.
Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#96If you like BeOS, take a look at Haiku https://www.haiku-os.org/ , it's very nice and very usable system based directly on BeOS.
Vitruvian can potentially have everything Haiku has (it's the same identical stack BTW) but with the power of linux.
It's cool if people could start to appreciate both visions.
Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#9725 years ago, I configured GNOME to run a BeOS-like tabbed window manager. On a sun workstation. But that's not what this is. Or not only: Nexus Kernel Bridge Nexus is Vitruvian's custom Linux kernel subsystem that brings BeOS-style node monitoring, device tracking, and messaging to Linux — making it possible to run Haiku applications on a standard Linux kernel. It claims to run apps from Haiku, the current open-sour…
Looks like this is a thin translation layer for BeOS/Haiku syscalls. I wonder why they aren't relying on Syscall User Dispatch https://docs.kernel.org/6.19/admin-guide/syscall-user-dispat... which would enable them to put this compatibility layer in user space. It's already being used by recent Wine versions.
It's not really a translation layer, nexus implements the same BeOS/Haiku IPC in kernel but using linux kernel primitives.
It's not as much as a translation layer than any other IPC in the linux system, really BeOS/Haiku apps are first class citizens.
Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#98I bought an Amiga in the early 90's and enjoyed it immensely. Commodore went under and Amiga died. I bought BeOS in the late 90's and enjoyed it immensely like a breath of fresh air in a sewage pipe. BeOS died. With my track record I really, really should've bought Windows. Twice, to make sure.
This post is really bringing me back! I knew talk of BeOS would stir up all us old heads. I think what we're all really nostalgic for is the days of tinkering with computers. When things lacked polish, and people put real effort into making their system nice. I remember corrupting my family computer hard drive trying to get a Linux dual-boot setup. Good times!
Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#99This is interesting - a Linux distro that really differentiates itself technically , instead of just having a different GUI / desktop environment.
Yeah, first I thought this is just a BeOS-inspired GUI theme, but there is more to it:
Nexus is Vitruvian's custom Linux kernel subsystem that brings BeOS-style
node monitoring, device tracking, and messaging to Linux — making it
possible to run Haiku applications on a standard Linux kernel.Re: VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
#100I bought an Amiga in the early 90's and enjoyed it immensely. Commodore went under and Amiga died. I bought BeOS in the late 90's and enjoyed it immensely like a breath of fresh air in a sewage pipe. BeOS died. With my track record I really, really should've bought Windows. Twice, to make sure.
I am in the same boat, every time I like something, it is a commercial failure. They should really hire me to check if I like whatever project they got in mind and if I do, cancel immediatetly and save the losses from being a failure.