Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Aug 2004 21:07 UTC
Haiku (OpenBeOS)'s third birthday was a few days ago. While some BeOS parts have been successfully re-implemented so far, these were mostly the 'trivial' parts: screensaver kit, printing kit etc. Read more for a mini-editorial.
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...with Eugenia.
Idealism is nice and everything, but Haiku has not usable for a Generic End User in the past, and is still not usable for a Generic End User.
I mean, hell, look at <a href="www.syllable.org">Syllable: when did that fork start, and it already seems lightyears ahead of Haiku.
Having a bunch of randomly spread out functionality does not equate to something usable; you know, viable, feasiable. You need something concrete; something that works.
All that "under the hood" junk is nice and dandy, but until its tied into everything else and made into an actual operating system, they are simply very interesting modules that provide functionality... and nothing more.
Haiku has taken way too long to come to maturity; time, of course, is not a factor in OSS projects, but the baselines for technology are ever-shifting, and if you ever want something that you can sit down and *use*, you have to keep up with that - case in point*, once I hit Longhorn's sweet, sweet vector-based UI I'm not coming back down to anything less. Period. I'd rather it be Mac OSX's sweet, sweet vector graphics, of course, but the hardware costs more than my car!
*Yeah yeah, I know, I'm not Joe Everyman, and there will always be someone wanting to use a hobby OS. But guess what: I'm writing this comment, and you're not! Nyeh.