Haiku software ideas

Just a list of ideas for making Haiku apps. Most of this wasn't relized yet – and a lot of these things would be never done.

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Batteries-included PXE boot server

A GUI app (and accompanying CLI utils/daemons, wherever applicable) that allows you to launch a TFTP server, DHCP server etc., after just giving it a netbootable image. It should be also able to consume Linux kernel images (serving an appropriate boot loader).

Features:

• At least x86 PC legacy BIOS boot
  • UEFI if diffie bothers to learn it
• Ability to ingest various image formats:
  • Plain images (or just files to put on the TFTP)
  • Included options for preparing images with iPXE, PXELinux, GRUB2 etc.
  • Serving a more fancy loader (see ↑) and then using saner protocols than TFTP
  • Serving Haiku
  • Easter eggs images? Memtest86+? EFI shell?
• Bare-bones DHCP server
  • Pre-configured to bootstrap the other machines
  • Per-machine config
• Ability to run appropriately-configured QEMU to test the setup

foxture 04:13, 31 October 2026 (CET)

Forking BeTon and enhancing it

It's currently missing a lot of stuff:

• Global controls (via keyboard and also a CLI utility)
• When the Rating column is shown, clicking there should adjust rating
• Displaying only rated items

foxture 04:16, 31 October 2026 (CET)

Weather apps

CHMI data client

Something that connects to dataprovider.chmi.cz and does (at least):

• show past weather meteograms
• show Aladin model forecasts
• show text forecasts

foxture 04:31, 31 October 2026 (CET)

Image map viewer

Just a cute weather app showing data from the following sources:

• Czech/central Europe-specific:
  • CZRAD
  • CELDN
  • Aladin maps
• MSG (variuns generations!)
• NOAA polar satellites

foxture 04:31, 31 October 2026 (CET)