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(Haiku developer here.) > Am I missing something? Haiku's not nearly as well-tested for security as most other OSes. We have a lot of the basic features (ASLR, NX bit, safety check…

> And things such as ruby don't work on it. What doesn't work about it? We have Ruby in the software repositories, and Ruby is required to build WebKit (and we build WebKit on Haik…

It's Unicode code points. I don't know why you say this is "tragic", it's a logical unit to work in here.

> with new techniques and materials on top of old work done in a way that was usual at the time. But is there any long-lived project for which this isn't true? Linux and the BSDs s…

(One of the Haiku developers here. Thanks for your support!)

Have you read the User Guide on these subjects? https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-filetype...

The RISC-V port was done almost entirely by one developer who took an interest in it. It wasn't as though the project got together and decided to prioritize RISC-V over ARM; it was…

Well, there's nothing preventing it from happening if that's what you mean. It's just a difficult thing to do, and requires effort (and expertise.) I might take a crack at porting …

Haiku's "raison d'être" is to be a fully-fledged desktop operating system for general use. So, if there aren't native applications to fulfill daily tasks, then Linux ones tend to g…

There's a "flat" decorator which makes things look more 'modern', if that's what you want: https://github.com/unarix/haiku_darkstyle#darkflat (Available in the Depot; install "haik…

(Haiku developer here.) There is one hardware accelerated driver, for Radeon Southern Islands; but it's third-party, out-of-tree, and not particularly simple to set up and get runn…

(Haiku developer here.) This is a pretty common misconception, but it isn't true; Haiku doesn't have a "POSIX compatibility layer", it's just natively POSIX under the hood. You can…

> The Alpha doesn't promise that there's any coherent ordering at all unless you've imposed one Yes. But why did you bring this up in this thread about API usage ? It's the impleme…

> Your "no possible way" is assuming Sequential Consistency, I am assuming events cannot finish before they are started, yes! I am pretty sure that even the (in)famous DEC Alpha co…

Haiku uses the System V ABI (mostly.) So, we're doing the same things Linux and the BSDs are here, simply by using GCC or Clang without any special tuning here. > I reckon that bef…

You are correct that deadlocks can be caused by signals occurring before the wait starts, and thus some sort of mechanism to ensure this does not happen is needed, but I explained …

That's not normal behavior (these days, anyway!) A lot of users are able to go months without kernel panics, especially on certain kinds of older hardware. Did you report any of th…

(Haiku developer here.) The correction is wrong; while some select portions of BeOS were released as open-source (most notably Tracker, Deskbar), the OS as a whole was not, and Hai…

> The only current issue with ext4 that I found was https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16392 A 3 year old ticket with only one reproduction from 2 years ago, and it appears to have be…

(Haiku developer here.) I would trust the NTFS driver pretty implicitly at this point both for read/write; it's based on NTFS-3G, and following the rewrite I did of the Haiku-speci…

> It is lovely to use once you learn the keyboard shortcuts If you mean Alt vs. Ctrl, you can swap to Ctrl-based keyboard shortcuts by clicking the button in the "Keymap" applicati…

Haiku already has support for multiple users at the kernel and filesystem level. You can `useradd`, `passwd`, and then `su` (or even SSH into your newly-created user on your Haiku …

(Haiku developer here.) This is actually a very common misconception that Haiku is not a UNIX, and it's sad to see The Register get it wrong. It's debatable whether or not BeOS was…