Kernel developers have found and bisected the kernel issue...
They split it in half? I suspect you mean disected.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *WOW* You should avoid making technical comments when you're not very technical. bisecting means git is able to track down bugs by taking known working and non-working points in a source code tree and narrow down the broken revision by working from two directions to the common fault.
But an instance of the text editor is.
Fair enough
News from Haiku is interesting because they're one of the few truly alternative operating systems out there that are actually progressing
Very true... some of us are real men who do real men computer work... the rest of you can use your 'apps' from your 'app stores'
now I can run a text editor with more than 3.1 gigs of ram
Haiku has PAE support... so it isn't limited to 3.1GB ram on 32-bit x86
Unfortunately, the project is slowly heading towards disaster as more and more incompetent people have started to contribute (think GSoC gone wrong, permanently.)
Care to elaborate?
The code base is 1) not security audited,
What says it can't be? Also, Haiku is only single user, so at the moment this doesn't even make sense. (pre-beta software is pre-beta)
2) slow as hell
Umm, most 3rd party reviews mention how fast it is
3) assbackwards
This isn't a statement.
4) not having a snowballs chance in hell to work on my 4-way CPU (the memory manager dies under SMP load and must be rewritten.)
Strange, my eight core AMD bulldozer cpu works just fine.
I loved BeOS, but this is not going to replace it.
Patches welcome
I admire their work. They've obviously done some impressive things to preserve that community. I just don't understand them. BeOS hasn't really progressed at all in the past...what? 8 years?
Keep in mind that Haiku is compatible to BeOS on the binary level. Be had an army of paid programmers and made the first preview release in a few years. Haiku *reverse engineered* BeOS with a handful of (mostly) non-paid developers. 8 years no longer seems so long
At this point they may as well be hacking on Amiga or Plan9. by the time they're done, we're all going to be running on browser-based platforms that use the OS as a layer to support the fancy proprietary graphics drivers. I'm simplifying of course, but that would sure sap my enthusiasm for an OS project.
Haiku supports a wide range of video cards, and has a modern WebKit based browser. Haiku actually fits your description better than Windows or Linux.
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