[openbeos] Re: Haiku on Asus eeePC
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:47:30 +0100
Fredrik Modéen wrote (2007-10-30, 08:57:32 [+0100]):
> >
> > Paulo Estrela wrote (2007-10-29, 17:05:30 [+0100]):
> >> Considering the reviews that I read until now, Asus Eee uses a Solid
> >> State Disk (SSD) plugged on USB bus. I think that Haiku doesn't
> >> support yet booting from a USB disk, then some things must be
> >> implemented to this
> >> become possible. Eee could be a good platform for Haiku. Tiny laptop,
> >> low
> >> processing power, this needs a fast OS.
> >
> > Which Haiku is not (at the moment), in various aspects. I don't want to
> > stop anyone from trying Haiku on that PC. They should just not do so
> > with the wrong hopes or reasons, IMHO.
>
> Like saying 2001 that we are going to make a BeOS R5 replacement? :P
I just wrote this because it sounded like Haiku already _is_ this light,
fast OS right now. Haiku is fascinatingly close to the dream of 2001, but
it isn't there yet. Just the other day I was happily using Haiku and right
when I was thinking "man this feels very much like BeOS" it killed itself
on me. (I was just bringing a Tracker window to front, the window locked up
and then more and more other windows too, if you care.) In some aspects,
Haiku is as fast or even faster than BeOS, but in many other aspects, it
isn't even close. And you can't trust it yet to run stable. It's gotten
much better, yes, but we are simply not there yet.
> But for this to happen (Haiku working on eeePc) we would probably need
> some of the hardcore driver developer to be interested as well :) As Axel
> said (not that I'm counting on him to by one) it would be a sheep (not
> the animal) way of getting "new" hardware for driver development.
Absolutely. For this to happen, someone capable of writing or fixing kernel
level stuff has to be motivated enough to do it. But if I was allowed to
express my hopes for on what the core devs should be working on, it should
be stability instead of additional drivers.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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