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Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by thaumaturgy »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #8
rtpg wrote: post #2

I've always been confused as to what sort of niche Haiku is trying to fill. Is there that much of a demand for BeOS applications? Maybe I'm just too young to know

I've actually been using Haiku as my primary work OS for a while now. I don't need much software beyond a web browser and a text editor (increasingly true for many people I imagine) and Haiku offers some benefits over Linux in simple shell features like stack & tile window management. Check out the User Guide[0] for a sense of the unique features. [0]: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html

Could you be talked into doing a little writeup on what you've got running on it, any problems you've run into, that sort of thing? I think I'd like to try dual-booting or a VM, but I'm years out-of-date on the Haiku world.

Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by hisham_hm »

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #6
rtpg wrote: post #2

I've always been confused as to what sort of niche Haiku is trying to fill. Is there that much of a demand for BeOS applications? Maybe I'm just too young to know

It's almost as if you've never heard of hobbyist OS development.

Unfortunately it's not a popular pastime as it used to be.

Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by joshuapants »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #8
rtpg wrote: post #2

I've always been confused as to what sort of niche Haiku is trying to fill. Is there that much of a demand for BeOS applications? Maybe I'm just too young to know

I've actually been using Haiku as my primary work OS for a while now. I don't need much software beyond a web browser and a text editor (increasingly true for many people I imagine) and Haiku offers some benefits over Linux in simple shell features like stack & tile window management. Check out the User Guide[0] for a sense of the unique features. [0]: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html

I agree with thaumaturgy, I'd certainly like to hear from someone using it as a daily driver. I think around Alpha 1 or 2 I installed it on a spare box for fun, but never really tried much with it.

Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by mortyseinfeld »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #10
GuiA wrote: post #9

I have a fantasy that 20 years from now, Haiku will be the operating system of choice for hackers with design sensibilities (NB: I didn't say graphic design ) who want a powerful, flexible, programmable OS that just works and requires minimal configuration. This niche is currently filled by OSX, but I think it's slowly falling out of favor because of Apple's increasing focus on the end user and "iOSifying" everything…

FWIW Debian stable (esp. with KDE IMO) is now very close to this. I have no patience at all for a fiddly daily machine, and for the most part I've been pretty happy with it. There are probably other Linux distributions (Mint?) that can fill this niche. I only mention this because, if people are looking for something right now, setting aside a little bit of time to try out Debian stable or Mint might be worthwhile. Bu…

The people that used BeOS and look forward to Haiku are going to disagree with you on that. I'm guessing that they look at Linux distros as a hodge-podge of various libraries without any cohesive philosophy.

Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by mortyseinfeld »

agildehaus wrote: post #3
rtpg wrote: post #2

I've always been confused as to what sort of niche Haiku is trying to fill. Is there that much of a demand for BeOS applications? Maybe I'm just too young to know

Since when does everything have to fill some niche? What about just trying to make a good open-source desktop OS, for fun, because they're developers? I see this quite often on articles about Haiku. Everyone jumps on them like it's such a bad thing that they're working on something and it has no relationship to Linux.

It's a legitimate question. Haiku was being funded a few years ago and there has to be some kind of mission for a project like Haiku.

Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by frozenport »

GuiA wrote: post #9

I have a fantasy that 20 years from now, Haiku will be the operating system of choice for hackers with design sensibilities (NB: I didn't say graphic design ) who want a powerful, flexible, programmable OS that just works and requires minimal configuration. This niche is currently filled by OSX, but I think it's slowly falling out of favor because of Apple's increasing focus on the end user and "iOSifying" everything…

Once the Gentoo Grinch grows a heart and make an installer your problem will also be solved. I can get any package and any library built the way I want by typing `emerge`.

Re: Haiku meets 9th processor

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Post by nknighthb »

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #6
rtpg wrote: post #2

I've always been confused as to what sort of niche Haiku is trying to fill. Is there that much of a demand for BeOS applications? Maybe I'm just too young to know

It's almost as if you've never heard of hobbyist OS development.

$41,500 was spent paying developers to work on Haiku in 2013:

http://www.haiku-inc.org/funded-development.html

This is way past "hobbyist OS".

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