The Dawn of Haiku OS
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The Dawn of Haiku OS
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Re: The Dawn of Haiku OS
#2"What really sets Haiku apart, though, is its efficiency and speed. On my three-year-old desktop computer, Haiku boots up from a cold start in 10 to 15 seconds, and when running it uses only about 170 megabytes of RAM."
Sounds good to me, but 10-15 seconds running on what specs?
Also, looking at the video, it seems like this OS is stuck in the 1990s. That is fine as long as it runs a standards compliant browser, but it just seems lacking based on this video- has this changed?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixvppiSB7hc
I do like that it is just the basics though.
Re: The Dawn of Haiku OS
#3I like the idea of Haiku OS, but from what I've heard, for binary-compatibility reasons (kernel drivers? All applications? I'm not sure) it still ships with GCC 2.95.
Requiring a compiler over a decade old for a modern OS doesn't seem like a good long-term strategy.
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#4At some stage they must have asked themselves, with all the effort they had gone through, couldn't we just make a serious offer to buy the BeOS IP?
Re: The Dawn of Haiku OS
#5I like the idea of Haiku OS, but from what I've heard, for binary-compatibility reasons (kernel drivers? All applications? I'm not sure) it still ships with GCC 2.95. Requiring a compiler over a decade old for a modern OS doesn't seem like a good long-term strategy.
Haiku now uses a hybrid system so that it can support GCC 2 applications while using GCC 4.
http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2008-05-18/steady_progress_towa...
Re: The Dawn of Haiku OS
#6"What really sets Haiku apart, though, is its efficiency and speed. On my three-year-old desktop computer, Haiku boots up from a cold start in 10 to 15 seconds, and when running it uses only about 170 megabytes of RAM." Sounds good to me, but 10-15 seconds running on what specs? Also, looking at the video, it seems like this OS is stuck in the 1990s. That is fine as long as it runs a standards compliant browser, but…
Haiku has a native browser called WebPositive, using Webkit, but it's probably a year or more out of date. I understand that there are efforts underway to sync the browser with a more recent Webkit and get features like HTML5 audio/video in.
It'd be wonderful if someone more familiar with the issue would comment on the browser's status.
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#7At some stage they must have asked themselves, with all the effort they had gone through, couldn't we just make a serious offer to buy the BeOS IP?
Palm/HP probably wouldn't have sold it for strategic reasons or something.
Re: The Dawn of Haiku OS
#8"What really sets Haiku apart, though, is its efficiency and speed. On my three-year-old desktop computer, Haiku boots up from a cold start in 10 to 15 seconds, and when running it uses only about 170 megabytes of RAM." Sounds good to me, but 10-15 seconds running on what specs? Also, looking at the video, it seems like this OS is stuck in the 1990s. That is fine as long as it runs a standards compliant browser, but…
Haiku has a native browser called WebPositive, using Webkit, but it's probably a year or more out of date. I understand that there are efforts underway to sync the browser with a more recent Webkit and get features like HTML5 audio/video in. It'd be wonderful if someone more familiar with the issue would comment on the browser's status.
Yeah, just tried it. Web Positive has an HTML5 score of ~150/500 whereas Chrome on my Mac has a score of 400/500. As more and more applications are available as browser apps, if Haiku updates the browser it'll be a win. Haiku seems really snappy and responsive.
Re: The Dawn of Haiku OS
#9At some stage they must have asked themselves, with all the effort they had gone through, couldn't we just make a serious offer to buy the BeOS IP?
Palm/HP probably wouldn't have sold it for strategic reasons or something.
it's apparently owned by http://www.access-company.com/home.html
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#10"Where BeOS drove ahead of other operating systems of its time (and where Haiku is still ahead of contemporary operating systems) is that each individual application uses many threads. The core of the application itself has one thread, and each window the application creates has a thread."
I might not have been around when BeOS was first created, but this is certainly not a new concept today. I don't think I can name a major OS today that doesn't support this model. Both Android and iOS are well known for this technique, but they were hardly the first to adopt it.