Hi folks I´m not sure if everybody has gotten my point I described in mail #9 to this discussion.
What I certainly will not do is anything with one of the X based desktop environments. These are the problem and not the solution. I performed some experimentation and I decided to focus on Haiku becuase its in a pretty good shape and under active development. They have a fantastic UI which is a pretty exact copy of Be Inc´s BeOS. It has also nothing to do with X. I´m not the first one with this idea and there was a project called cosmoe which had the goal of porting the Haiku userland to a Posix kernel (well, actually, Linux). BeOS/Haiku has some own IPC primitives (ports and messages for instance) which are unknown to Posix. Cosmoe is trying to emulate these through shared memory and SysV semaphores. I think this is a good base for a prototype. I had to make a couple of changes to the code but it does compile now and I can start the appserver, which renders to wscons through SDL (I´m seeing a white rectangle and a mouse pointer). The Haiku to Posix wrapper is, however, broken on NetBSD so I can´t do anything further yet. 2015-02-18 21:24 GMT+01:00 Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it>: > Hi, > > Stephan wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Is there anyone still interested in bringing NetBSD to the desktop? > > Why still? I use it as a desktop. I have it running on two laptops, > sparcstations, mini-pcs, etc > > I use for everything GNUstep applications (GWorkspace, GSPdf, Zipper, Ink, > LaternaMagica... etc etc) > > On one laptop I use for Mail and Web SeaMonkey, on the other one I use > Firefox and Thunderbird. > > I must say the Mozilla applications work absolutely fine, exactly as on > Linux. No stability problems compared to Linux or other BSDs. > > I am in the meanwhile trying to improve GNUMail and TalkSoup. Clearly, for > the Browser it will be a long way. > > > To be true, not everything is so smooth compared to Windows or MacOS, I'm > sorry to say that, but not inferior to other unix-like systems. > > What are your problems? > > Riccardo
