[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1/alpha discussion proposals
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:51:39 +0200 CEST
> Quoth "Axel Doerfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> ...
> | But an app like a questionnaire about what hardware works, and how,
> | doesn't sound too bad, at least, even though it does sound like
> | something not really tailored towards our current primary audience
> (ie.
> | developers).
>
> Some developers may need to acquire new hardware in order to run
> Haiku, and a list of hardware that works might make the difference
> between developer and would-have-been developer. Or at worst, a
> list of hardware that doesn't work could save some would-have-been
> developers some frustration.
>
> My computer that has run BeOS for lo these many years wouldn't run
> Haiku, and my new computer has needed to make some accommodations
> (e.g., IDE disk instead of SATA.)
Haiku should definitely run on those old boxes.
It currently needs much more RAM but that's because it's not yet
optimized.
Having swap support will surely help.
Btw I noticed 16MB was allocated right away just for the kernel heap at
boot...
François.
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