The latest Haiku activity report is here – covering the month of March – and it’s a real grab bag of tons of changes, but I’m not seeing any big ticket items. This means there should be something for everybody in here, from improved support for various Intel integrated grahpics chips, to more work on the ARM port, to glibc fixes, to… Well, you get the point.
The astounding progress with a custom kernel (newos) that has been achieved has not gone unnoticed by google (that funded several haiku projects). Fuschia is in some ways the same kernel and share some designs as they are both based on the same concepts by the same developer (Geist), but not the same as dörfler and the others has changed into something better and greater.
If there was only modern graphics drivers for acc2d and acc3d with full mesa and vulkan support now that wine is ported again (the beos port of wine worked VERY pooly and was made by some enthusiast just to run excel 97, and acdsee32. But others seemed to run just fine) From the bebits comments: “I ran heroes of might and magic 2 just fine on BeOS through that shitty wine layer that judgen made, it worked but i would not pay for it, nor would i pay for any windows software!”
You keep posting this but it really has very little to do with Travis or NewOS…..
Haiku’s kernel has long since diverged from NewOS and Travis hasn’t really had any involvement with Haiku in a decade.
I’m not sure what you are remembering but don’t believe there was ever a real port of wine to BeOS… Until this Haiku port there was a vestigial port but it never ran anything, and even if it did I’ve never seen a working package of this in 15 years. Also not sure why anyone would remember BeBits comments at this point that site is long gone… due to the bad spat it’s maintainer had with the Haiku devs mainly as well as the bad design of packagefs which gets in the way of conventional application installation on Haiku,
Current nightly build(s) somehow does(/do) seem more stable and even maybe slightly more performant – especially in Web+.Haiku is now my daily driver for the majority of tasks for https://studyessay.org/, and I am loving it.