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You are right regarding most people taking the path of least resistance and supporting the established players, but these players have the market to lose and th
by smallstepforman 6y ago
You are right regarding most people taking the path of least resistance and supporting the established players, but these players have the market to lose and there are a category of people who will support a quality underdog. Haiku is far from perfect but I’m frustrated with the behaviour of commercial OS vendors and I’m personally not aligned with the “Linux” road map (even though I professionally recommend Linux for my employers embedded products, I eagerly wait for Haiku to replace it, and it eventually will).
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI'm in more or less the same position (but am less excited by Haiku), but as much as I am willing to overlook a lot of shortcomings for something that works the way I want and isn't beholden to corporate bullshit and desktop-hostile philosophies, I can't expect the same from someone reviewing the thing.
- ac29 6y agoWhat advantages do you see Haiku having in the embedded space over Linux?
- smallstepforman 6y agoIt will never replace Linux on invisible devices, but on consumer facing devices with a screen (ie. car info systems, heck even possibly an Android competitor). First of all, there is no GPL, second its an integrated system with a single path from kernel to any component so makes customising easier, third the design emphasis is on latency not throughput (so great for GUI but not for file serving). If Haiku was available in 2004, Playstation 3 would be Haiku based (not FreeBSD based), and Android would have also been Haiku based. Google are working on Fuschia to replace Linux in Android, whose core development team are ex BeOS engineers who built the kernel Haiku is based on and there is talk of Fuschia adopting BeFS from Haiku.