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Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

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Re: Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

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Post by vinkelhake »

joshuapants wrote: post #3
wmf wrote: post #2

What was the outcome of the discussion about switching to the Linux kernel?

Do you have a link to where this was considered? This seems like it would nuke almost the entire point of Haiku, since the goal isn't just to be a desktop environment.

http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Whats-the-st...

The discussion was quite interesting. There were basically two camps. One that wanted to focus on the "product" side of Haiku and leverage the superior hardware support in Linux. The other saw the development of the Haiku kernel as a goal unto itself.

Re: Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

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Post by gillianseed »

joshuapants wrote: post #3
wmf wrote: post #2

What was the outcome of the discussion about switching to the Linux kernel?

Do you have a link to where this was considered? This seems like it would nuke almost the entire point of Haiku, since the goal isn't just to be a desktop environment.

Why would relying on an existing kernel (linux, bsd) 'nuke' the point of Haiku ?

The API's (kits) would not have to change in any way, which is the part that application developers face, and from a user perspective the only difference would be better performance and much better hardware support.

The 'point' of Haiku (and BeOS before it) has (in my opinion) always been to provide an OS that is designed for desktop use with the apps integrated well with the desktop environment, I don't see how that in any way excludes using existing kernels since the 'desktop part' is outside of the kernel anyway.

Re: Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

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Post by ashark »

gillianseed wrote: post #4
wmf wrote: post #2

What was the outcome of the discussion about switching to the Linux kernel?

It seems it was just someone trolling, no code has surfaced at all. Still the discussion it generated was interesting.

That's good, since I'd assume that if it were possible to deliver as nice a desktop experience as BeOS on an OS with the Linux kernel someone would have done it by now.

Then again, maybe it really has been X's fault all along. I guess we'll find out with Mir and Wayland.

[edit] fix broken sentence

Re: Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

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Post by d3141 »

As someone who played with BeOS in my younger days; I'm pretty curious about this project, does this use any of BeOS's code or is this a reimplementation of BeOS ideas with it's own codebase?

Re: Haiku OS – Fundraising 2015

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Post by cgh »

d3141 wrote: post #8

As someone who played with BeOS in my younger days; I'm pretty curious about this project, does this use any of BeOS's code or is this a reimplementation of BeOS ideas with it's own codebase?

https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq#top_6

"Is Haiku based on BeOS then?

Haiku reimplements both the BeOS technologies as well as the end user experience, but it is far from being based on BeOS from a code base perspective. The only BeOS code that has made it into Haiku are Tracker and the Deskbar (the file manager and the equivalent of the start menu/taskbar, respectively). These were open sourced by Be Inc. back in 2001, later forked under the OpenTracker project, and eventually merged into the Haiku code base. The rest is either homebuilt code or derivatives of existing open source software."

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