General Haiku Discussion

Any chance we can ever see a Haiku approved motherboard? One thing I don't like much is the guessing game trying to find a suitable Haiku PC. Would be sweet if say once a year the Haiku team could put out a note of a somewhat new and current motherboard that once could buy that has been tested and approved for Haiku use. Would attract more people to Haiku I bet. I myself don't have deep enough pockets to keep guessing and buying motherboards and CPUs in hopes one finally works. And, I really want a Haiku based system too. My 1st two attempts trying my Intel based Macs failed so a bit timid on spending lots of money on something that may not work. And yes, I see and know about the hardware list but it is mostly outdated systems that you can't buy anymore. So, any chance we could ever see something like this. "Approved" motherboard and CPU that is newly out within last few months and is confirmed to work with Haiku?

Thanks

tj

Hello

Since the full implementation of font rendering is missing from the binary distribution, and since it's an important feature, could somebody post a how-to guide on how to compile (part of) Haiku to enable the sub-pixel font rendering ?
(If it's legal to do so, I'm not sure about it).

thanx.

I am mostly a lurker, with only rare posts. But, i do keep up with Haiku on a regular basis. I was a BeOS user and have been waiting patiently through the years as Haiku has developed. I have downloaded and tried both alpha releases. One thing I see often to the response of lack of video hardware support is that VESA is good enough. As a user I have to disagree. As the next release and hopefully soon maybe a Beta. I would like to see the devs take a real hard look at the "VESA is good enough" theory.

No matter how you slice it, VESA performance is poor. Haiku is supposed to be snappy, responsive, and nothing does more to undermine that then a poor user experience on the desktop. Windows don't drag across the screen with out 'tearing' Opening up more windows can cause a very noticeable slowdown of the system. yes, I have seen the videos showing how well the vesa driver works with multipul windows, but in the real world it isn't so good.

I only write is as Hakiu is getting to a sate of usability and with the next few releases will probably start seeing more people looking at it as it becomes more feature complete. If they are greeted by a VESA driven experience, I fear it will sour them. As much as loved BeOS and have hope for Haiku, based on my experience under Vesa. I would not use Haihu without at least 2d hardware accelerated video drivers. It really needs to be able to access a video card for it can do for the OS, including playing video files, improved rendering of web pages etc....

Of course this is only my opinion. But, if the first real experience people have if they decide to try Haiku, is the VESA drives. It may just turn people off, it would me.

I of course have no clue how to correct this. I only know that from what I have seen reading thing from the devs they seem to think that VESA is just fine, I don't agree.

wrong forum :-P sorry