"Paulo Estrela" <paulojbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > My opinion about this subject is that if Haiku have a strong > focus on desktop, desktop experience should be improved. > Ports to another CPUs is great, but this is not the focus. I think > we should improve "control panel" GUIs, try to make Haiku > more stable and etc. For Haiku to be made more stable and for the GUI to be more responsive, the guts of the kernel and the guts of the app_server need to be well known, well designed and well optimized. That's key to a good desktop experience. A port to another CPU can help make Haiku more stable, by finding bugs in the machine-independent parts of the code. The machine-dependent parts for PowerPC should in theory have no influence on the x86-dependent parts. They are exclusive. You either have one or the other built, together with the machine- independent parts. The machine-independent parts are the same regardless. They constitute the core of the kernel. Adding a third architecture does not alter the stability of the x86- or PowerPC-dependent parts, but it can help improve the machine- independent parts, and shake out machine-dependencies in the supposedly machine-independent parts. /Jonas Sundström.