Haiku Port :)
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At least in the form of an unofficially maintained assembly or an eternal unstable. The original Opera supported BeOS, and I really want Vivaldi to support Haiku. Haiku doesn't have a single large browser right now. I have to use the likes of Otter, QupZilla or WebPositive, but these are very niche browsers.
Browsers like QupZilla or Otter are powered by QtWebKit, which is based on the Chromium source code. The people from the Haiku community ported it almost alone. Thus, we can conclude that porting Vivaldi to Haiku can be easy.
But this cannot be done by the community due to Vivaldi's closed source code. Therefore, I appeal to the developerswith a proposal to release the port for Haiku.
This summer, Haiku released its second beta version, it is confidently moving towards release candidates and further final version. The platform needs a really serious browser.
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@JohnConnorBear I am assuming first and foremost that porting will be easy, given that people are porting Qt and QtWebKit alone. At the same time, I say that there is no need to officially support Haiku either - given that the system itself is still in the beta stage, there is no point in spending resources on deep testing of Vivaldi port. In the end, they implemented the Philips Hue backlight support just for fun, although it has no real use.
At the same time, if developers, more competent people than me, say that this is really difficult, I will not insist and agree with them that there is no point.
At this time I rather want to bring this idea up for discussion to the developers and listen to what they have to say.
Haiku is a very friendly system, I'm sure she makes a lot of people fall in love with her, but it lacks a serious browser. It should be treated not as a working tool, but as a hobby. Opera was also a software geek hobby in many ways. And these geeks have not gone anywhere. They are still here and still software geeks.
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Hi, My name is Siddharth,
Even if the project isn't a success at least if get's off the ground and get's at least someone from the team to at least maintain it then it would be good.
As for a user who is thinking of switching over and who also uses your browser.
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Hi. Vivaldi work on Haiku?
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@obiwan1 said in Haiku Port
:done by the community due to Vivaldi's closed source code.
But chromium is open source, isn't it?
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I want also GNU Hurd Debian port.
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@neonix1 Gnu/Hurd is BSD if I recall correctly... we already have a request:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/8782/freebsd-version@obiwan1 You probably should edit the title with BeOS / Haiku support
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@Hadden89 Not quite. GNU is a userland and Hurd is a mikrokernel. There are only 2 distributions that are developed right now. Arch Hurd and Debian GNU Hurd.
I believe that Vivaldi team are not spend money for such rare systems. But they can create crowdfunding campaign and use users money to promote this browser in many places.
Old Opera had many incarnations on many exotic platforms. Why not go the same path?
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@neonix1 Old Opera had a bigger team and more resources, probably even from external investors, so it was the reason it landed even on niche platforms.
Vivaldi has a smaller team and no investors, so probably the reason they can't focus on these platforms. But never say never -
I don't want to create another thread. Here are my ideas.
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RISCV64 Linux port. It's not worth to buy RISC-V hardware, if there' no Vivaldi. But I don't want to buy RPi ARM becouse GPU acceleration is not always supported by Linux. I belive RISC-V hardware will have full Linux support.
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BSD x86-64, ARM and RISCV64 port. I don't like Linux binaries emulation in BSD systems. That's why there should be native port.
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Haiku x86-64, and ARM, and RISCV64 port.
If Opera Presto had many versions that improve popularity of exotic OSes, Vivaldi team can do the same now. It's not a problem creating crowdfunding campaign and see if there's response. If one port is created, automatic script will create new compilation. There's no need of human assistance all the time.
BTW. There should be low RAM version of Vivaldi for Chromebooks, RPi and RISCV64. And also x86-64 cheap thin clients. Web browser is the main program that is installed on computer. Instead compiling Chromium on those exotic OSes, Vivaldi team can provide compiled versions that speed up developmemt and popularity of those OSes. Newbies can install Vivaldi in easy way (tarball archive, not deb). What is more, many countries will go through information revolution.
Those cheap platforms and OSes will speed up development of those counties and cut cost of gaining information.
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@neonix1 said in Haiku Port
:BSD x86-64
For which one of the 4 BSDs though...
There's already a feature request thread for FreeBSD which you can upvote here, also since Chromium exists for some of the BSDs already you could ask in relevant channels if someone has tried to compile Vivaldi from source , or try it yourself as a hobby, I remember some people were able to compile it at least for Windblows.
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