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In terms of foundations and principles Haiku OS is more of a coherent platform that anything on the Linux desktop attests to be at the moment. In terms practica
by chrsw 3y ago
In terms of foundations and principles Haiku OS is more of a coherent platform that anything on the Linux desktop attests to be at the moment. In terms practicality, hardware support and a size of software ecosystem it is still very minor compared to Linux, which I find unfortunate.
- nightowl_games 3y agoThese two things are linked.
- chrsw 3y agoThis statement got me thinking. How do you mean? I wonder if you're thinking what I'm thinking.
- nightowl_games 3y agoA solo developer or a small team can create a very focused, consistent product. But once the masses of people are drawn to it, both as customers and as contributors, maintaining a hold on it as a visionary is difficult. Id argue that squeezing too hard to maintain that hold can strangle the project. A perfect idealized initial design and initial vision can drive consistency further along the timeline, but this is an ideal. We create something, then we give it to the world to be consumed. Haiku is still in its cocoon. It is unclear what would happen to it should it achieve the focus of the hivemind. It is unclear if the development team would even like that.
- snvzz 3y agoWith a recent, working port of Wine, there's no shortage of software to run on it.
- pjmlp 3y agoAll desktop OSes are, as they are thought as a whole stack, not jigsaw puzzles. That is what made Android/Linux and ChromeOS/Linux attractive to the masses, they offer the structure, for users and application developers, that GNU/Linux has never managed to structure across the endless list of flavours on Distrowatch. I really enjoyed using BeOS 5 during its heyday.