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I have a silly question, first I'm not an expert on operating systems internals, second I'm not trying to imply that all the hard work from these brave souls is

by tored 5y ago

I have a silly question, first I'm not an expert on operating systems internals, second I'm not trying to imply that all the hard work from these brave souls is a waste of time, third I do understand they joy as a programmer of working on your own little universe, even if the community is tiny, and don't want to discourage anyone working on this project. but why not use like a BSD kernel and then attach the BeOS/Haiku window manager on top, implement the BeOS API ("bine") against BSD, so you can run all apps. You would get lots for free, drivers, kernel security, tried & tested, ACL (don't know how that would work against BeFS), ports, etc. I tried BeOS 5 just before it was scrapped. Sad. Edit: Some answers here. But if wine works, why couldn't bine work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)#Compatibility_with_BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)#Compa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiku_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiku_(operating_sy...

mappu 5y ago
It probably would work. Lots of people use Linux+Wine, but ReactOS exists too as a ground-up implementation with its own Windows-like kernel. Why didn't they just make a well-integrated wine distro instead? and the ReactOS wiki answers: """design and implementation decisions of Linux and Wine architectures which prevent 100% compatibility""". The ReactOS kernel also natively supports many Windows drivers. There is this question "Why not linux" in the Haiku FAQ: https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/#why-not-linux https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/#why-not-linux that suggests they just think it's more integrated and unified this way. They are probably correct. It sounds like you're thinking the world would be further along if people got behind one single cause. Maybe that's true, it is certainly more work to rebuild the world. But hobbyist interest is probably non-fungible, people are just going to build whatever they feel like.

by tored 5y ago

mappu 5y ago

It probably would work. Lots of people use Linux+Wine, but ReactOS exists too as a ground-up implementation with its own Windows-like kernel. Why didn't they just make a well-integrated wine distro instead? and the ReactOS wiki answers: """design and implementation decisions of Linux and Wine architectures which prevent 100% compatibility""". The ReactOS kernel also natively supports many Windows drivers. There is this question "Why not linux" in the Haiku FAQ: https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/#why-not-linux https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/#why-not-linux that suggests they just think it's more integrated and unified this way. They are probably correct. It sounds like you're thinking the world would be further along if people got behind one single cause. Maybe that's true, it is certainly more work to rebuild the world. But hobbyist interest is probably non-fungible, people are just going to build whatever they feel like.