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Re:Haiku Beta is finally here by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:14PM (#18772693)
To be fair, most of this work, as is the case for any popular operating system, is mostly drivers. It’s entirely possible to write a succsssful operating system for a narrowly defined platform.
Re:Haiku Beta is finally here by waddlesplash on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:20PM (#18772740)
Well, Haiku reuses FreeBSD's ethernet/WiFi drivers, and we will probably wind up reusing DragonFlyBSD's DRM drivers. Most of our time in kernel development is actually spent on the kernel, not in driver development.