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   Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:34:32 JST Joe Groff

   let's try posting from a parallel timeline

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     pinskia (pinskia@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:34:28 JST pinskia

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     @joe Well if it was fan fiction, it would be using PEF still.

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     Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:34:30 JST Joe Groff

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     …and it's not only BeOS fan fiction! Haiku's got some pretty interesting OS design stuff going on with its package management system. When a package gets dropped into certain blessed folders, their dependencies are automatically resolved and their contents are overlain read-only into the filesystem. The bootloader keeps track of system revisions and lets you easily boot into a previous configuration too. Like a modular version of the APFS system/data volume split https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/develop/packages/Infrastructure.html

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     Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:34:31 JST Joe Groff

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     Haiku already gets +10 points over 99% of X11 based desktop environments for having correct Macintosh-flavored shortcut keys

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     pinskia (pinskia@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:37:29 JST pinskia

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     @joe I have no comments on that. At least they are not requiring CodeWarrior 9 to maintain bincompat with PowerPC BeOS ...

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     Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 10:37:30 JST Joe Groff

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     @pinskia the x86_32 build does still use GCC 2.95 to maintain bincompat with Intel BeOS R5!