Re:Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
by mntmn on Saturday September 29, 2018 @03:59AM
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Incredible progress, very cool! I used BeOS back in ‘99 and loved it. Applications were straightforward to build with C++ and the BMessage system. It had a great little community, even in Germany (“BeGeistert”!).
Does Haiku run on ARM nowadays?
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Yes:
https://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/arm/
It's even buggier than the x86 version though, and you don't have any software beyond what you compile for it yourself.
Re:Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
by tossaway44 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:08AM
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I thought the ARM version didn’t have a GUI yet...
The Application Server is in progress, but it builds. The problem is that on x86, you can fall back on the BIOS w/ VESA to display video; while ARM lacks that functionality. If you can find/build a video driver it should Just Work(tm).
You can see the current video drivers here:
https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/build/jam/images/...
Which are all x86/amd64-based. The RPi would actually be relatively simple to throw a framebuffer video driver together for, though:
* https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/s...
* https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki
* https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi/tree/master/video01
Re:Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
by waddlesplash on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:44PM
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Err ... no? The problem with the ARM port is the lack of device drivers, and the fact that there is no userland/syscalls ABI set up yet at all. So there's still a lot to be done here.
BeOS in '99 what a glorious time to be alive! Such potential, it's been 20 years in the making!
Re:Haiku R1/beta1 has been released
by agumonkey on Saturday September 29, 2018 @08:52AM
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was the OS api that better ? I only saw bits of the [db]FS part, it was lovely.
It was built with threading in mind throughout, which was unusual for the time. Remember, it took until C++11 until threads became part of the language.