There’s another Haiku monthly activity report, for April, and as always, there’s some interesting changes, bugfixes, and improvements in there. The biggest improvement?
Let’s start with the most exciting developments this month: Korli started work on a 32/64 bit hybrid. The idea is to run a 64bit system, but allow 32bit applications to run on it. While we are just at the very first steps, it is a good thing that this is being worked on, as it will allow us to move more smoothly towards 64bit support.
In addition, the first three Google Summer of Code progress reports have been posted, for the SDHCI MMC driver, the TrackGit project, and XFS support.
Haiku would have a viable future if ported to ARM. Raspberry Pi ( and other similar products ) would enjoy the speed, low resource usage, and development tools Haiku could offer…
They would also benefit from Haiku’s hybrid architecture that keeps the kernel and the GPU driver separated. That monolithic binding is part of what holds back Linux on SBCs from taking a significant chunk of “PC” marketspace, and is probably 90% of the reason why Android updates get killed so quickly.
Under recent Haiku news ( http://www.osnews.com/comments/30289 ) kallisti5 said they are working on ARM port.
Looks like the sdhci link got duplicated… XFS link should be:
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/abx1/2018-05-07_gsoc_2018_xfs_support_…
Nothing about the official beta.. another wasted year…
Edited 2018-05-15 17:13 UTC
I learned that years ago. Nobody really cares about the project anymore. This is evident in developer activity that is a shade of what it used to be, comments here or on their website, or their donation meter that nobody on the BOD cares to update and that used to have an annual goal $35k!
Quite a few people care actually, but it takes a *lot* of care and feeding to manage an entire operating system, an archive of ports, and a not-for-profit org.
We need a city of people, but only have a village… so we do the best we can.
Step up and help out if you want to see us do better.
One place to start would be the automation around the donation meter. The code is here: https://github.com/haiku/donation_tracker
Edited 2018-05-15 23:27 UTC