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------------------------------------------------------------ Harry Potter 5, Pijul and Darcs, and Haiku ------------------------------------------------------------ Harry Potter 5 I've finally finished the fifth book in the Harry Potter series and have instantly started the next one. I gave the book 5 stars. One thing I've noticed is that the movie took quite a bit out of the book. Also, Umbridge, imo, seems even more awful in the book than in the movie. It'd be cool to have a Wizarding World themed PAU and Gopher server. Pijul and Darcs Solum mentioned that he was considering Git or Bazaar for a vcs. I wanted to mention that there is another VCS project that I don't think gets too much attention, called Pijul. It's based on Darcs and tries to fix the performance problems of darcs. Both Pijul and Darcs are based on patches rather than what the majority of vcs's are based on, Snapshots (Git, Mercurial, Fossil, Subversion, etc.). It's still being developed, but development has recently slowed down since I think many of the developers are in College. And not that it matters much, but it's written in Rust, as well. Haiku Another person, can't quite remember who, mentioned OSs - So I wanted to mention another OS that doesn't get too much attention (although, recently I'm sure the attention has been increased due to the recent Beta 1 Release), Haiku. Haiku is an OS written in C++ and based on BeOS. It's definitely the fastest OS I've ever used. It has some nice features. Two examples I can give are the ability to "glue" two windows together so that when you move one window, the other window moves with it, staying attached together by one side. The other nice feature is combining multiple windows into one tabbed window - this feature is also being experimented with in Windows 10 Insiders Releases (tabbing UWP apps into one window) and Google's new Fuschia OS (where some of the developers actually worked on BeOsS, interestingly enough). Haiku OS has recently had it's Beta 1 release along with quite a bit of ported apps. Qt has been ported, so Haiku can run Qt programs now, including LibreOffice . Haiku of course has Python, Vim, Rust, and many other applications. However, Haiku doesn't have many good browsers. There's a Webkit browser that uses the native C++ GUI library call WebPositive (name based on BeOSs browser name, I believe) and some Qt ones that also use Webkit. Webkit is the only browser engine that's been ported over afaik. Some people are currently working on NodeJS I believe, not that many people on gopher probably care. There's been talk about plans for the next releases, hardware acceleration (particularly for graphics), and few other things. What's currently stopping me from completely switching over to Haiku is the browsers, my particular WiFi card not being supported yet (even Linux doesn't support it yet, I have to download rtlwifi_new from GitHub and compile that to get my WiFi working). That's really it I think for me.