This Is My Second Deadline Missed In A Row.
Youtube rewards and promotes creators that upload frequently, and regularly; so I try to publish a minimum of one video per month.
Ubuntu 22.10 was released in October, and I tried to publish it for November. But due to circumstances & responsibilities I ended up releasing it in December.
Screenshot from the history montage: Seymour Cray of Cray Supercomputer fame was the financier behind Be Inc.
December of 2022 Haiku releases R1 Beta-4.
This was perfect timing as I needed a topic for January.
I've dabbled with Haiku in virtual machines over the years, but with this release I felt Haiku was compelling enough to do a video about it.
I started off by brushing up on Haiku's very interesting origin story.
Haiku is an open-source recreation of BeOS, and this is reminiscent of BSD & Linux which were recreations of UNIX.
I felt I couldn't properly review Haiku without also including the BeOS story.
So I ended up putting together a 3 minute history montage to be included.
The montage is heavy on effects and ate up a ton of time because I'm obsessive with editing. I could say that this was a waste of time.
But on the flip-side; Touches like this montage can become the thing that keeps people watching or makes a video feel more compelling.
Using Haiku
Before recording I started to exhaustively test Haiku I quickly realized there was a lot of things I wanted to cover in the video.
Haiku's desktop alone is full of interesting quirks, and it ships with an astonishing number of applications.
Diving into the Haiku Depot I found there were many applications I use on Linux, and many others that are unique to BeOS and Haiku.
I had installed a lot of software, and configured the system to my liking.
Soon I realized that I had installed so much software that I'd need to roll-back to my fresh install snapshot in order to chronicle everything when recording.
I got totally lost because I was actually having fun.
Recording For Haiku
Starting fresh I chronicled testing/configuring everything again while recording. I'd recorded over two and a half hours of video, and I wasn't even done covering everything that comes pre-installed yet.
This makes me reconsider the format and structure of the video overall.
Leading to my considering dropping the installation process, and maybe removing the process of getting audio working in VMware.
Even if I drop those things there's a lot of software I planned to install and test for things such as creating music and editing video on Haiku.
I definitely NEED to publish a video for February, but I'm considering splitting it up into two videos now:
One that covers the system itself, and perhaps includes the tutorial of installing/configuring the partitions & getting sound working for VMware.
And the second would focus on the things you can do with Haiku for things like music & video work.
Would Love Any Thoughts Or Suggestions:
People rarely comment here on Hive when I ask questions.
BUT, if you happen to read this entire thing please let me know your thoughts.
1. Should I break the video into two parts? AND:
2. Should the video be more about showing everything off or is it important to have configuring/installing and getting the audio working for people using a VM?
Appreciate any feedback/thoughts.
-- Jay DS-Tech Media