Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Jul 2007 22:55 UTC
"A few days ago, everyone read about this year's WalterCon being canceled, which left people with non-refundable, non-transferable [airplane] tickets (you can read Mikesum32's reaction here) in their hands. Fortunately for them, an alternative has now been set up, and they will be able to still meet, in San Francisco, on August 11th. The venue? Picnix 16, a Linux gathering. The name? FalterCon 2007. Read on for my thoughts on this."
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Almost all processors sold today are multicore ( 2 core design ) and 4+ cores are here too so SMP is very important ( as you stated also ).
Haiku will *eventually* work with *most* SMP systems but not until it reaches Beta or Release Candidate status. That means not until Haiku is ready for a public release. In its current state it is mainly for people to play with and test/check out. It also does have SMP support built in because it works on Axel's systems though it needs to be further refined to work on more SMP computers.
If you *really* want to run and use a BeOS system today then you should look at finding a copy of Zeta 1.2 ( or newer ). This *probably* will work with your multicore systems. And let you use BeOS until Haiku is ready. You can also try BeOS MAX too which may work. You shouldn't expect much from Haiku until R1 ( which seems to be 2 years away from having a release ).
Zeta or BeOS R5 ( or 5.1 ) are further ahead right now than Haiku. When Haiku reaches R1 it should have the same or better performance and stability as BeOS R5.