Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jul 2007 07:15 UTC
Today, we bring you the first installment in a series of short interviews with lead/prominent developers of many "smaller" operating systems. In this new series, dubbed "Five Questions", every interviewee will answer the same five questions about the project they are part of. The series will be kicked off by Axel Dorfler, the prominent Haiku developer.
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2006-11-30
I have a sixth question: Will Haiku even boot on modern machines anytime soon? I have three fast multicore laptops (amd and intel), and Haiku doesn't boot on any of them. According to the good folks in #haiku, there are either issues with smp, or something timing related on fast machines. Even when I disable smp, the darn thing won't run for long.
Now, that's fair... this is pre-alpha stuff. However, my concern is that most devs seem to do most of their development on emulators. As comfortable as that might be, it is a catastrophic practice. It means all devs work mainly on the exact same "hardware", and tons of chipset specific bugs, etc doesn't show up. And even the core devs, including axeld apparently, doesn't even have proper hardware to test things on (no 64-bit smp, etc)
Could someone please send these guys some test hardware? Not that I think they even ask (they should - other os projects have been successful in that)