Haiku spins could help app development

Forum thread started by syd on Tue, 2015-04-21 01:06

Supplying a few Haiku spins with a collection of dedicated apps at release time could help encourage app development. For example, a multimedia spin, a graphic arts spin, a repair/diagnostic spin, etc. This would encourage people to try out Haiku for the apps that are included without having to worry about installing the OS and downloading apps from repositories.

If you look at Linux, it began to take off after the release of the Knoppix live CD. Because it provided many useful apps for administering computers. Since then Linux has successfully plugged the specialist LiveCD niche. Haiku could learn from this.

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Re: Haiku spins could help app development

by AndrewZ - 2015-04-21 19:12

I used to think that was the way to go, to promote Haiku. But now package management makes it even easier. If we send out a vanilla version of Haiku, and a script to access and install apps, utilities, content from HaikuDepot, that's all you need.

Andrew