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I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, i

by apowell 17y ago

I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, it'll be much easier this time around.

there 17y ago
except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.
- warfangle 17y ago
  What if host systems evolved to become little more than virtual machine managers, dealing with hardware drivers and so forth - while the user-space operating system is freed from having to worry about the actual hardware being used unless it really wants to?
  - there 17y ago
    like acpi? that turned out wonderfully.
  - rglullis 17y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
- GeneralMaximus 17y ago
  Not really. Most of the core devs run it on bare metal. So far, I've tried it on my custom built PC, a Dell Inspiron and a Toshiba Satellite. Works perfectly.
- yason 17y ago
  I don't really care about the BeOS / Haiku kernel. We could use Linux for all the h/w support there is. BeOS was impressive but I guess Linux can be made to play a dozen videos at the same time, too. And I usually stick with only one. But the user space and the user interface are brilliant! I would trade Gnome, KDE, Windows, OS X, or $NAMEIT for the BeOS userland any day, both as an end-user (wrt. UI) and as a developer (user-space API). I hope we'll have more choice in the future.
  - gecko 17y ago
    There was a project called BlueOS to do exactly that, but it appears dead now.
  - rcoder 17y ago
    How about this: install Debian, 'apt-get install kvm' (okay, you'll probably have to run that through module-assistant, but still, it's only a few more presses of 'Enter' away), then run 'qemu-system-x86_64 haiku.img -m 2048'. Voila! Linux as hardware abstraction layer and virtualization engine, with Haiku running on top.

by apowell 17y ago

I remember installing BeOS when it came out. It was impressive and beautiful, and I really wanted it to catch on. I think I'll give Haiku a spin. With VMware, it'll be much easier this time around.

there 17y ago

except they've been doing all of their development in virtual machines, so the actual real hardware support is quite thin.

warfangle 17y ago
What if host systems evolved to become little more than virtual machine managers, dealing with hardware drivers and so forth - while the user-space operating system is freed from having to worry about the actual hardware being used unless it really wants to?
- there 17y ago
  like acpi? that turned out wonderfully.
- rglullis 17y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
GeneralMaximus 17y ago
Not really. Most of the core devs run it on bare metal. So far, I've tried it on my custom built PC, a Dell Inspiron and a Toshiba Satellite. Works perfectly.
yason 17y ago
I don't really care about the BeOS / Haiku kernel. We could use Linux for all the h/w support there is. BeOS was impressive but I guess Linux can be made to play a dozen videos at the same time, too. And I usually stick with only one. But the user space and the user interface are brilliant! I would trade Gnome, KDE, Windows, OS X, or $NAMEIT for the BeOS userland any day, both as an end-user (wrt. UI) and as a developer (user-space API). I hope we'll have more choice in the future.
- gecko 17y ago
  There was a project called BlueOS to do exactly that, but it appears dead now.
- rcoder 17y ago
  How about this: install Debian, 'apt-get install kvm' (okay, you'll probably have to run that through module-assistant, but still, it's only a few more presses of 'Enter' away), then run 'qemu-system-x86_64 haiku.img -m 2048'. Voila! Linux as hardware abstraction layer and virtualization engine, with Haiku running on top.