[openbeos] Re: Driver proposal
- From: "Vassilis Perantzakis" <vaspervnp@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:33:19 +0300
I agree about the time, however the problem is that BeOS might not have
a community as large as it is today by then....
I myself are very involved with BeOS, and I am learning how to program
on it (since I would like to see some professional programs on it one
day),
BUT, I have problems with finding hardware that BeOS will work on. I had
to stop for about a month when I bought my Athlon XP, until the first
patch got out....
Now that I want to have some more advanced hardware, to accelerate my
work, I can't because it is not supported.
Wouldn't what I say accelerate your work too? Instead of slowing down...
And as for loosing two months... I am not talking about all the
resources,
but only a couple of developers, to bring some more choice. Because
imagine having OpenBeOS ready in a year as you say, but runs (well
enough)
only on a small portion of the hardware available.
Drivers will be needed on the R1 release any way. Why not accelerate
that part of the development and give better chance to BeOS?
-----Original Message-----
From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Axel Dφrfler
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:16 PM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Driver proposal
Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Vassilis Perantzakis wrote:
> > I have a proposal to make to the OpenBeOS team. Since the date for
> > R1 is
> > at least 1 to 2 years into the future, if not more, I suggest that
> > for a
> > couple of months for each year, the team allocates resources to the
> > creation of drivers for BeOS / OpenBeOS. This will help keep the
> > current
> > state of BeOS to alive and not partially dead.
> You're making two assumptions here, that are not correct or at least
> might
> prove wrong. The first is, that R1 will indeed still take more than
> one
> year to be finished. Although some people keep repeating that we are
> still
> several years away from our first release, I don't believe that.
> The second one is, that are a lot of driver writers among the
> involved
> developers. Some are, but a part of those keeps working on drivers
> anyway
> (like Marcus) or even do nothing but drivers (like the undercredited
> Thomas Kurschel).
BTW the undercredited Thomas is also working on our driver system (so
not only drivers ;-)) :-)
> I for one want OBOS to be finished as soon as possible. If it would
> still
> take a year, I rather want to have in a year instead of in a year and
> two
> months with just a bit more drivers.
I second that!
Adios...
Axel.
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