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Thoughts on Haiku OS and GTK

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I'm not sure I really like the fact that GTK has been ported to Haiku. Of course it's great when open source works that well and people put the work in to make something available for more people! For many more people than it has been before, Haiku has become a viable choice as their main desktop OS with Beta 4. Not too many apps are developed for Haiku natively and even the old BeOS apps, if you have one that you would still like to use, don't run on amd64. With GTK more useful apps became available.

But Haiku is a low-resource and especially low-latency OS with defined goals of keeping this spirit alive. It does still run on 25 year-old and older PCs. The few applications that exist for #Haiku you can trust to be much more careful with using available resources than the average GTK application. I don't believe that Haiku will become as wild as Linux. The OS still is much smaller and will stay that way. But if more and more #GTK applications will become the standard solution for tasks, there will be less gaps to fill and less gaps will be filled by new, small, low-latency GUI applications.

I'm not saying I don't like this development. I'm sure I'm going to make use of it. But I'm not sure I like it, too.

Edit: There is a blog post with a very interesting discussion in the comments about this: Haiku isn’t a BeOS successor anymore by Thom Holwerda

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Movies That Suddenly Change Genre After A While

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I think that there should be more films that change genre in the middle of their story.

There are hardly any examples for movies that start out with one genre but suffenly change their tone entirely unexpectedly. At least once I would like to see a film that tells a family drama, then suddenly turns into a science fiction piece when somebody discovers a door into a parallel universe or something. Being John Malkovich comes close in a way. And that is part of why I like its weirdness. But it doesn't change it's mood, story telling style or subject matter at all at the time it gets weird.

There is a difference between a movie that changes its genre in the middle and a movie you watch expecting a different genre from what it's actually in. But that can work to give you the same confusing surprise. For example when I watched Victoria (2015) for the first time without knowing anything about it, I expected a mellow love story between a big-city boy and a foreigner new in the city and country. Everything was pointing towards this being the story of the film. And it is. But it's embedded in a crime story with more action than I saw coming. This dichotomy shaped my viewing experience very much, making it a trip where enything could happen and many extreme and unexpected things did happen.

I'll try to make a list of film that are actually split into two different genres. I don't know yet if I will find more than one.

Mickibo and Me (2005) - The lighthearted, childlike look at the political and social situation in of the young central characters' surrounding are what makes this story so nice to watch. Even as an adult who knows what's going on, it's easy to dismiss the anguish portrayed and focus on the adventue that the two kids are having. In the end the harsh reality comes too close to the story telling lead character to ignore it anymore. While I'd clearly classify the whole movie as a comedy, the sudden shift in tone for the tragic ending hits all the more and made me cry vewyond the closing credits.

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Alternative Operating System: Snowdrop OS

Entry created on 2022-03-29 Authors: steeph (376) Categories: Computer (78) Operating Systems (24) Software (53) incomplete (21) Languages used: en (257) Topics: Software → Alternative Operating Systems (18) edit

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Snowdrop OS

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Alternative Operating System: Shrine

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Shrine (Github)

Shrine is a fork of TempleOS. Let's not get into the interesting story of how TempleOS came to be. If you don't know it already, you can read about it, or not. Shrine is a fork that mainly gets rid of all the religious stuff but keeps the unique approach of how things are done in this OS. I'm not sure what other changes have been introduced in the fork. Development seems to be stalled. But it definitely is an improved version from TempleOS. There's a lot to say about this very different OS. I'll leave it to a few points: The only screen resolution is 640x480 and it has a text-based windows UI. Everything is very C. It's written in C, config files are C code, commands on the command line are C code, ... Keyboard shortcuts (as well as everything else) don't follow any existing convention. Everything about this OS seems unique and different, or at least alternative. I'm not an author of C stuff. So I didn't get much done in the time I tried Shrine. But I bet it's an interesting experience for others, even without contributing code. I wouldn't be able to use it with all it's blinking and moving title lines because of a lack of space (pixels).

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