Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Oct 2007 19:31 UTC, submitted by koki
Haiku developer Marcus Overhagen reports that the AHCI SATA driver he has been working on in the last few months has been checked into the Haiku repository and is now ready for testing. Marcus is requesting those brave souls willing to test the SATA driver that they please send serial debug output or open bugs at Haiku's bug tracker.
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1. You obviously didn't use BeOS at all, or didn't use it for a long time now. Even with much faster computers, "main" operating systems of today are slow compared to BeOS. And i don't mean that they are slower in terms of some huge calculations, or CPU intensive tasks (compiling projects), but in terms of responsiveness of user interface.
i think that it still is behind BeOS is terms of overall "user-friendliness" (hard to explain, but responsiveness is one of the major parts of it).
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2. While i like Ubuntu (Linux with Gnome) and also think it's quite usable (i use it everyday now, while waiting for Haiku or other BeOS-comparable OS
3. I guess Linux can be used as multimedia system. But it still is not what BeOS was (or is on older machines
So: Yes, it's nice that Haiku is progressing. There is still need for a true desktop oriented OS (Linux was not meant for desktop, and even with great work in last few years, there are still parts of it that shows that desktop on Linux is more like a "patch" than "natural" thing). It may or may not be too late for Haiku to become bigger player at some point in future. But who cares? I just want easy to use, fast (responsive), nice and clean OS - i don't care about what others use as long as they are using formats of files i can use too