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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2006-12-01
I think they should test on as much hardware as possible.
BTW developing using a Virtual Machine is correct IMHO; The VM provides a sort of generic HW, and many developer can focus on developing new features and fixing bugs without having to deals with drivers or strange hardware.
I know hardware support is critical, extremely critical. But I think it would be really important to have an full working os and after dealing with different kind of hardware.
It may sound like chicken and egg problem because you cannot have a working os without hw support.. but really if the programming resources are not infinite you must choose what's more important.
my 2Cents.