[IDEA] Haiku for Kids

Yes. Which children do have 750MHz computer? Really. Even their smartphone is faster than that.
And i dont know what kids you mean. But even the small kids want games for the browser and youtube. And that's not possible with haiku at the moment (and with syllable even a lot less).

Haiku even as a "general purpose os" has just very few users, and you come up with a specialisation to "os for kids".

Haiku is still at the beginning, and there still a lot missing, and you want to suggest that we start writing educatioal applications for children of 3 years and up????????
For that the nintendo handhelds are much better suited and make more fun.

I saw also on the syllable forum that you are posting such "ideas", and I have no idea, how you can still have such ideas, now after spending so many years with alternative operating systems, you should have an idea of what is realistic and what not.

Perhaps you dont know, but on the nintendo handhelds are also educational software, for example for learning vocabulary, math,... and so on.
And a good educational software for a kid, has to have the feeling of a game, so that the kid has fun continuing using it.

And related to "port". Perhaps you dont know, but "porting" a gui application can be more hard then writing it from scratch. And I'm sorry to tell, but we dont have yet an "magical porting application" where you just need to press the "port" button.

I guess you should write your genius ideea also on the forum of skyos, perhaps that will determine Robert to stop writing apps for iOS, and returning back to skyos development. :-))

Remark:
It would have been no problem, no see such useless ideas coming from a newbie, but you have spend so many years with alternative operating systems, that you should already have a little idea what is realistic and what what not. But you still continue spreading all the time various genius ideas, that everybody ignores.
At the moment i have just two explications for you behaviour:
1) you are bored. In that case perhaps you should buy a pet, or find another hobby.
or
2) you feel the necessity to contribuite somehow to a project, then i recommand you to consider a donation instead. It would make much more sense.

In normal case I wouldn't have answered (like the others) to a such useless idea, but since i see you since years making the posts of the same quality, i decided to help you to face the reality. That's my last post related to you idea, since i really should spend the time with something else.

Well, what's stopping you? Change the name, artwork and credits as required by the license and branding policy, slap on a bunch of old BeOS games and compile away. Games are the one thing Haikuware is not short of. Let us know how it works out.

I doubt it will be successful. Once your main selling point becomes "this will work on old computers" you are competing with the win95 installation that is already on that old computer. It is running just fine, the bugs were sorted out a decade ago. Why on earth would they change it? Believe me, I've seen this since the days of GeoWorks Ensemble. Pitching your OS to obsolete hardware is the fastest way to talk yourself into irrelevance.

This does not mean that it is bad for the devs to focus on optimization, but mainly because that allows us to say "This runs as fast as lightning on MODERN hardware"!

So please, don't just post wild ideas here and expect someone, anyone to implement it. Read the policy statements then just go ahead and DO it and tell us where we can download the results. People may like it or not, but you will get respect for having made the attempt.