Haiku Continues Seeing A Lot Of Driver Fixes, New Malloc & Now Built By GCC 8

[Vistaus]

There is a big devide in philosophy between GNU/Linux and BeOS/Haiku, one that can't be settled with yet another desktop environment under Linux. Haiku is developed holistically all the way from kernel to the UI.

Plus Haiku already has a layer for BSD drivers, so if it were to get ported, I think they'd port it to BSD rather than Linux.

[Danielsan]

This project just needs GPU acceleration, it is so cool!

[gilboa]

Question to any Haiku user: How is it as a desktop as far as usability goes and how well does it perform in a VM? I haven't used it since it was BeOS and I only used that for maybe 6 hours out of boredom one day 18 years ago.

I play around with Haiku from time on KVM.
Its slowly improving.
2D performance (2K resolution, qxl device) is more-than-OK, minus some half second hangs (seems to be a known issue).
Its even usable using a remote ADSL link w/ spicy.

- Gilboa

[gilboa]

This project just needs GPU acceleration, it is so cool!

Doubt that it'll happen, any time soon.
AFAIK It will require a major rewrite of their display server.

- Gilboa

[Danielsan]

Doubt that it'll happen, any time soon.
AFAIK It will require a major rewrite of their display server.

- Gilboa

There was a GSoC but failed.

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/vivek/2017-07-14_gsoc_2017_3d_hardware_acceleration_-_weekly_report_4/

If you read the comments there a lot of interesting info...

[gilboa]

There was a GSoC but failed.

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/vivek/2017-07-14_gsoc_2017_3d_hardware_acceleration_-_weekly_report_4/

If you read the comments there a lot of interesting info...

I've been following this issue for a while.
I assume it'll get more attention once they'll pass the B2 milestone (hopefully making it a stable daily driver).

- Gilboa