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Playing video games is very common and requires 3D acceleration for most games. It's not some niche requirement.
Are there many 3D-accelerated games ported to BeOS?
Web browsers and such do also leverage the gpu for rendering.
cpp was a poor choice for the system but Haiku is cute. The dev team should figure out 2D/3D acceleration and this thing will fly. 64 bit edition has finally abandoned BeOS compatibility and looks really promising as a quick tiny hobbyist OS.
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Early 2000s it was my daily driver. But man.. I used the filesystem like it was indented.. All my files had attributes. Unfortunately none of the metadata was supported on other platforms. Lots of wasted energy :) I loved BeOS
Did you ever use Scott Hacker's CD ripping script? It got the track info from cddb, added the attributes to both the mp3 files and the BFS extended attributes.
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These two things are linked.
This statement got me thinking. How do you mean? I wonder if you're thinking what I'm thinking.
Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.
I have to try Haiku, but the last time I used BeOS everything effectively ran as root. Not that Unix-style user permissions are the epitome of OS security, but at least an RCE vulnerability in the browser doesn't allow for persistent root or whatever.
There is a daemon running when I call `ps` that I see is called package_daemon. I think it is this one: I think it has exclusive access to a set of directories where software and such is installed. There is no sudo, su, etc. because you don't need it. hpkg files are loaded by the package daemon into the correct paths.
I looked at this a few months ago just to get what it is doing. It has to have some security model that protects certain paths at least. This looked like it.
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BeFS is its own awesome thing. Sure, ZFS integrity and portability is nice, but the speed and metadata of BeFS is great.
Sure, but adding metadata to zfs would probably be easier than modernizing BeFS. Just in general as FSes are very worthy of being a project unto themselves. Thinking of low lying fruit to get maximum value easily. BeFS doesn’t have to go anywhere either.
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If your daily driver is only web and email you can drive anything.
FDE still a stopper, in this post-Snowden world. Can't afford to do much on a machine that doesn't meet that bar.
Arguably live CD and encrypted removable storage which stays with you at all times is probably harder to defeat than most FDE.