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by waddlesplash 9y ago
Well ... Haiku isn't exactly glibc. Our math and IO portions are indeed glibc at least in large part (although a very old version...) but there is also a large chunk (locale, wchar_t, etc.) which we have our own version of.
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
BeOS lives on in Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/ -- and yes, we still have that user-friendly C++ API. :)
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
Haiku has the same rendering model, so it's equally snappy here. :)
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
You realize that "hey" is just the command-line interface to Haiku's view scripting system, right? We don't have a JS/Python interface (yet), but the C++ interface is well documented (see this: https://ww
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
The "hey" tool itself is just a command-line interface to the messaging/scripting system built into the Haiku interface kit (that it's essentially built around). Someone once wrote a module for Python to interface with i
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
I suppose I am a bit in error here, yes. The BSDs are indeed more unified than Linux is, anyway, although the unification only extends a few levels up from the kernel. Desktop environments are still mostly developed by other teams (and are
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
I meant "everyone" in the sense of "everyone who already uses Linux/BSD/etc." not "everyone" = "general population", sorry for the ambiguity. And of course one can be satisfied with Ubuntu a
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
It's kind of off-topic for this thread, but I think there are quite a number of arguments to be made for Haiku's continuing relevancy (although I'm clearly biased :). You're right of course about performance being much l
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
TuneTracker, the radio broadcasting system from the BeOS days, uses Haiku now: http://tunetrackersystems.com/ -- so that's one "business critical" application, at least.
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by waddlesplash 9y ago
Yes there is: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/blob/master/dev-lan...
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
Well, Haiku isn't too different from that anyways. The kernel is very much C++ and not C, and does have certain hybrid tendencies (it's a lot less monolithic and statically linked than Linux is at least), but most drivers still
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
What didn't the README and README.Compiling explain adequately enough for you? (And of course, feel free to pop into Freenode#haiku and ask us questions...)
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
Not sure why you say that. It already exists, anyway: https://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_64/
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
Actually, Haiku doesn't have any hardware video decoding. It's all software.
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
We do, however, have a very nice collection of haikus about Haiku: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/data/system/data/... :) (Although some of those are inaccurate these days - we
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
Exactly how long is unclear; however, post-R1, we intend to stop prioritizing it, and if it does stay around, it'll be secondary to continued development. There's been serious talk of actually branching R1beta1 on January 31, so,
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
The ARM port presently boots all the way to the startup screen, but then it halts because it has no way of reading the boot medium, because the USB stack hasn't been ported to ARM. Patches accepted! :)
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by waddlesplash 10y ago
The default build of Haiku is dual-GCC, you can switch to GCC5 by typing "setarch x86" in any shell. And the security model can't be helped if we want to maintain binary compatibility with BeOS - once we (mostly) drop that, w