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"Custom kernel designed for responsiveness"

Forum thread started by kurtis on Tue, 2012-06-12 21:07

On the 'about' page, there is this line:

"Custom kernel designed for responsiveness"

Out of curiosity, how is the kernel designed for responsiveness?

I assumed the reason for the responsiveness was actually because the GUI is multi-threaded and application developers are pushed into using multi-threading to an extreme? As an example I saw when reading somewhere, in Windows one Window is ran in a thread while in BeOS (which I imagine this carried over to Haiku) every individual GUI Object has its own thread. The example being that clicking a button in Windows could freeze the entire Window but clicking a button in BeOS would only freeze that particular button.

However, even with this approach -- would it be the kernel providing this mechanism or some sort of a GUI layer? I still don't have a very in-depth knowledge on Haiku's architecture so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Is there anything specific the Haiku kernel does for responsiveness that other modern kernels don't do?

Nightlies

Forum thread started by Trodfoot on Tue, 2012-06-12 12:55

I was just wondering why there is no nightly for a bit? The commits are up to 44240 but the d/l page only lets me get 44231.

Why Haiku?

Forum thread started by Pasi on Tue, 2012-06-12 06:33

Back in 1999 I was tired of windows and the problems it had, so I experimented with Linux and BeOs.

Linux won, because it had a more "dynamic" feel to it and I've used it ever since for my work (I'm a web developer).

Now today, I'm having a REALLY hard time with Linux, mostly because of the forced UI changes.

So here I am checking out Haiku with a feeling of nostalgy... I like the clean basic UI, that's a huge plus, but I'm left to wonder: What is the spot that Haiku tries to fill in the OS market?

Can you actually do anything with it, or is it just a nice "demo" ?

All the available software seem to be dead projects or very old versions of more popular stuff from other operating systems.

Sure it's fast, but so is my 2 months old laptop with a 10 year old linux distro, with Window Maker.

I'm trying to like Haiku, but I can't see the light .... ??!

Civilized discussion please.

Ho are supported Intel graphics?

Forum thread started by lukves on Sun, 2012-06-10 13:47

Today my pc have intel integrated graphics (Intel Extreme 2 - G41 (x4500))

mainboard Gigabyte G41-MT-D3

i have problem..

with listimage | grep accel i get intel.accelerant loaded but resolution is set to VESA. graphics not works, i can not switch to another non VESA resolution

i want make new computer next week with H61MA-D3V with Sandy Bridge cpu graphics

how suported is intel extreme x4500
and how supported is Sandy Bridge..

maybe i have more lucky with sandy bridge working than x4500

What I like, and don't like, about Haiku (and its community)

Forum thread started by kurtis on Sun, 2012-06-10 07:38

Hey Guys,

I've been into 'alternative operating systems' for about as long as I can remember. I was using BeOS (x86) back when the company still existed and had to spend hours downloading it over a slow Modem. I've been reading over the current state of Haiku on and off for a while, mainly through posts on the forums and mailing lists that pop up on Google.

Here's sort of the feeling I'm getting about the current community, which is sort of driving me away from wanting to get involved. Just to be fair -- I'm going to mention all of the reasons I like Haiku and originally wanted to get involved.

Haiku from real hardware to Virtualbox

Forum thread started by Giova84 on Thu, 2012-06-07 12:57

Hi,
I'd like to clone my Haiku installation from a partition on my hard disk to a Virtual disk.

Since there is no USB support in Haiku with virtualbox, i've found a workaround: i made a raw image of Haiku partition and then i converted this raw image in a bootable iso (i can also use this iso to clone Haiku with my personal settings and personal data on my others PCs), and i've used this ISO as Bootable CDROM inside VirtualBox, but Haiku hang at the rocket icon. With "on screen debug" I can read these errors:

runtime_loader: /boot/system/bin/sh: Troubles reading ELF header
error starting "/bin/sh" error = -2147478782

And above i can read:

Could not load kernel add-on "/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/disk/usb/usb/usb_disk": Not an executable
Could not load kernel add-on "/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/disk/usb/usb/usb_floppy": Not an executable
Could not load kernel add-on "/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/disk/virtual/nbd": Not an executable

But on VBox there is no USB device attached. But in any way.. There's a way to solve this boot issue?

Thanks in advance.

c++ codeblocks on haiku

Forum thread started by colbert on Sun, 2012-06-03 19:23

hi. Can I install codeblock on haiku? else What do you use for to use c++?

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