Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Sep 2006 18:00 UTC
Jerome 'Korli' Duval has adapted Haiku's MESA-based OpenGL subsystem to an addon format, allowing renderers to be plugged in, with the first one being a MESA software renderer. This system will allow hardware 3D renderering drivers, such as Rudolf's one when adapted, to plug in without requiring specialised libGL.so's for every card. This extends the common BeOS concept of modularity even further, and is somewhat similar to how Be's OpenGL beta worked - each graphics card acquired a third, .3da driver, to add to the kernel and .accelerant drivers.
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2006-03-25
I know the Haiku reasoning. "It's not a desktop kernel". How much are you giving up by it not being "a desktop kernel" though?
Apparently you have never run BeOS / Zeta / HAIKU. The x server system is just too slow to get that feel that is the BeOS experience. If you have never run the OS you would not understand how uncomfortable any Linux / BSD desktop system is ... feels like you are running your computer under water... everything is just too slow.