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This is pretty impressive. GTK, WINE, Wayland… As a “lightweight” OS, it has a lot of potential for tinkering. I can’t wait until they get a working ARM version
by rcarmo 4y ago
This is pretty impressive. GTK, WINE, Wayland… As a “lightweight” OS, it has a lot of potential for tinkering. I can’t wait until they get a working ARM version for a Raspberry PI or an RK3688 SBC.
- waddlesplash 4y agoThe ARM port has made a lot of progress since the last release; it gets almost all the way to starting the desktop. Similar progress was made on ARM64. But that's not very exciting news, so it only got an oblique mention in the release notes. The RISC-V port on the other hand is nearly fully usable even on bare metal. I know some people run it on HiFive Unmatched, at least...
- forgotpwd16 4y agoThe approaches to X and Wayland compatibility are interesting. >Instead of running a full X server as XQuartz or other X11 compatibility packages do on other operating systems, it directly handles Xlib API calls and translates them into Haiku API calls, instead. >It is a little more complicated than the one for X11, running an “in-process Wayland server” for each application instead of translating C API calls directly. Unfortunately the Wayland part has no blog post similar to the X one.