My thoughts revolve around the concept of an IoT application for QT on Haiku and other systems. The application would be under the system on a virtual machine. I have a few thoughts about this concept.
Is it worth developing Haiku for this solution?
Will I gather a team (people) who would like to be co-authors
of the above solution?
Does it make sense at all?
I am forced to solve this problem by the development of mini PCs, where I can install pfsens (firewall), pi-hole and wazuh on virtual machines.
Additionally, one could try to create applications for home automation with Zigbee on USB.
All this based on a cheap PC (post-lease, refurbished?).
When it comes to solutions (cloud and edge) according to my knowledge, the world is moving in three directions
A. cloud or edge system based on virtual machines
B. specific cloud architecture
C. compiler in the GCP cloud
Re A. And now the main question is whether Haiku will be able to become (of course not immediately) a specific
specialized system with several flagships (applications, my idea is an iot application, something similar to the tunetrackersystems.com idea), a system for virtualization. For now, it is a curiosity system for everything, (98th place in distrowatch.com due to popularity ;( )
Someone might say, make a fork of Haiku and work (by yourself?), the problem is that I have been in the community for 13 years and during this time there were probably 3 forks of Haiku that did not survive, sad.
That is why I am in favor of Haiku modifications that allow it to work on VM (x86 or x64), USB support, maybe GPIO (here the issue of Tier-2 development with Risc-V or ARM)
Re B. Here I do not see any stop for Haiku, maybe a server version, so that it could handle it like in the case of cloud fedora or ubuntu
Re C. The system is compiled in the cloud, Google is pushing this technology, many companies are interested, here there is
a space for Haiku after many improvements. I do not know if it is GCP paid or open source
The cloud is future of operation system, returning to a working version of haiku on VMware shouldn’t be painful. Same as implementing heartbeat for diagnostics.