Haiku

#1

Post by asdlfj2sd33 » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 10:50 PM UTC

Haiku
arstechnica.com

Re: Haiku

#2

Post by apowell » Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 11:55 PM UTC

I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, it'll be much easier this time around.

Re: Haiku

#3

Post by there » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:01 AM UTC

apowell wrote: post #2

I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, it'll be much easier this time around.

except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.

Re: Haiku

#4

Post by thejay » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:08 AM UTC

It sure is an impressive piece of software. I hope it catches on, or find itself a niche market.

I wonder if they're doing anything for developers to easily leverage pervasive multithreading, the bare bones fine-grained threading can be a pain to deal with.

Re: Haiku

#5

Post by warfangle » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:35 AM UTC

there wrote: post #3

apowell wrote: post #2

I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, it'll be much easier this time around.

except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.

What if host systems evolved to become little more than virtual machine managers, dealing with hardware drivers and so forth - while the user-space operating system is freed from having to worry about the actual hardware being used unless it really wants to?

Re: Haiku

#6

Post by inc » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:47 AM UTC

Long ago, I was a beta tester and ran BeOS on a dual ppro 180, for a time, and it was lots of fun, turning processors on and off and bouncing balls between windows. I wish more companies would be as visionary and innovative as Be was, and give us some new, different computing platforms.

Re: Haiku

#7

Post by URSpider94 » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:50 AM UTC

Man, I remember how badly I wanted a BeBox when they first came out, partly because the hardware was a hobbyist's paradise (a Geek Port, for chrissake), and partly because the UI was so pretty.

But, Linux and MacOS have come pretty far in the intervening 12 years, and without any special hardware to go with it, I just can't muster the excitement to mess around with Haiku.

Re: Haiku

#8

Post by there » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:57 AM UTC

warfangle wrote: post #5

there wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.

What if host systems evolved to become little more than virtual machine managers, dealing with hardware drivers and so forth - while the user-space operating system is freed from having to worry about the actual hardware being used unless it really wants to?

like acpi? that turned out wonderfully.

Re: Haiku

#9

Post by access_denied » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 1:05 AM UTC

And no furries! Ahh, I love every OSS project that spares me another furry on my app launcher.

Re: Haiku

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Post by rglullis » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 2:39 AM UTC

warfangle wrote: post #5

there wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.

What if host systems evolved to become little more than virtual machine managers, dealing with hardware drivers and so forth - while the user-space operating system is freed from having to worry about the actual hardware being used unless it really wants to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel