[openbeos] Re: Add-ons/Module problems/ideas??

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>I am listening to the audio from the Linux symposium in Ottawa this year.  The 
>module presentation is quite interesting because, to me, it shows how much 
>better OpenBeOS should be able to do this, especially with its concepts of
>bus managers and userland add-ons. [Caveat: I was not at the conference, so
>I cannot know what transpired in the after talk chats.]    At one point Rusty 
>Russell(?) suggests that Linux get rid of modules all-together. That 
>astounded me because under Linux:

I think that he might have been smoking some of RMS' drugs. ;-)

[snip]

>Anyhow, my questions to the OpenBeOS community are:
>
>Does anyone else here card about these issues?

Yes, we do. The main reason that you don't see them discussed here is that
they are already decided for R1. In the name of compatability and of having 
a spec "out of the gate". Right, wrong or otherwise, that was my call.

>Is the BeOS 5.0.3 implementation of addons good enough for OpenBeOS R1?   

Sure. Addons, as a whole, I think, are excellent. I don't remember anyone having
*any* complaints about addons or modules in terms of how they work.

>Doesn't everybody here want a kernel that blows Linux out of the water 
>(excluding drivers which must come from 3rd parties)?   

Of course. And we will/do. Our kernel as it stands today is not feature 
complete, but
it is already much better about SMP, IMHO, than Linux 2.4. It is much smaller 
and very
fast. Of course, that is without some of the features that we will need 
(terminals come to
mind). And remember, too, that Linux is "other-optimized" - it is designed and 
built to
be a server. That is a different goal than ours - we intend to be a desktop OS. 
That means 
things like we will "waste" more CPU cycles task switching more frequently, but 
will be 
more responsive. We will have less focus on some of the more batch oriented 
directions
and more on the light weight interactive. As with all design, there are 
tradeoffs. 

>P.S. I seem to have misplace the URL for the audio, but I can forward the
>few ogg files that I downloaded to anyone who needs them.  Don't bother

I would like them.

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