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It's almost as if you've never heard of hobbyist OS development.
$41,500 was spent paying developers to work on Haiku in 2013: http://www.haiku-inc.org/funded-development.html This is way past "hobbyist OS".
Maybe it's out of hobbyist status, but this is still far far below how much Be spent developing BeOS each year.
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$41,500 was spent paying developers to work on Haiku in 2013: http://www.haiku-inc.org/funded-development.html This is way past "hobbyist OS".
$41k isn't much, was split between two developers, and most every penny of that came from community donations. Maybe it's out of hobbyist status, but this is still far far below how much Be spent developing BeOS each year.
My one and only point is that you can't say Haiku is just a hobbyist OS. That's simply not a reasonable answer to the question of what its purpose is. It's just dismissive and insulting to the person who asked the question.
I guess I'm not surprised. 100% discussion about whether Haiku deserves to exist, zero discussion about the post. Can anyone talk about the significance of the removal of the hard processor limit?
To be fair, the scheduling might matter if a reader considered writing a library for Haiku. Can't game the system by surrendering a lock before the slice ends anymore. :-B
Now building a desktop OS is a an odd niche. At this point, all of us live on the web, and the desktop matters little, as we have the move towards mobile OSes, and the integration of mobile features into our operating systems. If we ever see a move back towards more "traditional" desktop OS paradigms, perhaps Haiku will see more use, but for now it's community is small, passionate, and fun. I don't think it will ever be big, but one can dream right? :)
I have a fantasy that 20 years from now, Haiku will be the operating system of choice for hackers with design sensibilities (NB: I didn't say graphic design ) who want a powerful, flexible, programmable OS that just works and requires minimal configuration. This niche is currently filled by OSX, but I think it's slowly falling out of favor because of Apple's increasing focus on the end user and "iOSifying" everything…
I guess I'm not surprised. 100% discussion about whether Haiku deserves to exist, zero discussion about the post. Can anyone talk about the significance of the removal of the hard processor limit?
I'm left wondering what the advantage of using haiku would be over fedora, ubuntu, mint, or debian?
Maybe check out some BeOS R5 videos, they were doing some really cool stuff before they went under!
I have a fantasy that 20 years from now, Haiku will be the operating system of choice for hackers with design sensibilities (NB: I didn't say graphic design ) who want a powerful, flexible, programmable OS that just works and requires minimal configuration. This niche is currently filled by OSX, but I think it's slowly falling out of favor because of Apple's increasing focus on the end user and "iOSifying" everything…
I guess I'm not surprised. 100% discussion about whether Haiku deserves to exist, zero discussion about the post. Can anyone talk about the significance of the removal of the hard processor limit?
It's good to remove hardcoded limits, but everything I see in this post looks like it was implemented in Linux and FreeBSD years ago. I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere, but it's not that clear why Haiku has its own kernel at all.