| > I think you totally misunderstood the part you quoted. I was referring to X11, the earlier implementations of which was running on hardware like IBM 6152 with a 5.9MHz CPU and 1MB of RAM. A $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is a sci-fi level supercomputer compared to that. I know. I mean, if that's possible, why is nobody doing it with Linux today? Or is it impossible in practice? > There is no point going antagonistic over this, the Haiku site has all the information you need: That page is pretty severely outdated; most of the drivers listed on that page are now confirmed as working, and we've merged more network ones from FreeBSD as time permits. Really, our hardware support is actually pretty good these days. > Also last time i checked there wasn't even accelerated OpenGL. There still is not, but there are blueprints for implementing it. If we had more than a man-month of development effort spent per month, we might actually get to it... > I mean, really consider the issues people have on a popular OS like Linux to get hardware working properly - Haiku is in a much worse position here. Maybe. But if that's the one con vs. all the aforementioned pros to having our own kernel, why is that such a problem, really? If the system really is "that much better," then users will be fine with buying specific hardware, at least until we can get the time and resources to support more. |