Re:Haiku Beta is finally here
by waddlesplash on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:55PM
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packagefs aggressively caches decompressed data and builds a bunch of indexes in RAM, and that's where the larger requirement comes from. It's not very well optimized for memory, though, probably someone dedicated enough could bring the requirement back down to 128MB.
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While optimization is indeed the hallmark of Haiku, the above difference does not matter much these days, of course. What could be a big deal, though, is the (missing) support for popular platforms with somewhat limited resources, such as the Raspberry Pi. Would not it be nice to have a smart TV or a monitor with Haiku built in?
Re:Haiku Beta is finally here
by waddlesplash on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:21PM
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It would indeed. Various contributors have been working on the ARM port for almost a decade now, and it's just stalled due to a lack of developer time for the most part.
IIRC, the current status of the ARM port is that the kernel is "mostly done", and at least one of the SDHCI or USB bus driver need to be ported (or written, in the case of the rpi) so that the boot can continue past the kernel.