General Haiku Discussion

Hi Beople,

I think that would be wise to change the ugly leaf on the frontpage with the

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I've been following this project almost since its conception as OpenBeOS. Though never a real BeOS user (played around with PE, thought it was interesting, but thats about it), I really like the idea of recreating BeOS. Why? Because I see it as one of the few open source OS projects thats currently NOT in a mature state (like Linux, *BSD, and now OpenSolaris) that I can really see getting off the ground. The big advantage being that there is already a strong BeOS community along with a host of BeOS apps and drivers, both open source and proprietary. Achieve binary compatibility, and you instantly have a viable platform capable of doing lots of cool stuff. You also have a whole bunch of users who will be jumping at the chance to try it, report bugs, and make suggestions for extending it. Haiku also has a more feasible goal than a project like ReactOS, because the OS it seeks to recreate is well designed, clean, and clearly spec'd out.

I posted a topic to the Features Request forum, but should maybe there be specifically a Glass Elevator forum for discussing long-term direction?

Just a little status update on what I'm doing:

I've been working for a couple months on re-programming the haiku site from the ground up. There's several reasons for a complete rework. One of them is that I wouldn't really feel comfortable releasing that old hacked together code as open source alongside our beautiful OS code. The other is that because I was writing it so fast, I'm sure there's some security exploits that people could find if they had the code.