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[nicholas]

I can't wait for the 68k port of Haiku to be in a usable state.  It would make a great alternative OS for the NatAmi/FPGA Replay machines.

[nicholas]

I'd love for the PPC port to be under active development again, but asking around on the forums it seems like nobody cares about it anymore... :/

Ditto, it would breathe some life back into some of the old Apple hardware I have cluttering up the house.

[nicholas]

I have been playing with Haiku recently and I am simply surprised how little code it actually takes to create a UI window and work with it. It's really an excellent model as to how an OS should work. I am fairly impressed by it. I wasn't aware there was a 68k version of it being built.

Beautiful API isn't it?

Francois Revol is the guy working on getting it to compile and boot on the Aranym VM.






http://haiku-files.org/unsupported-builds/m68k/

[nicholas]

I advise installing Alpha 3 and then immediately installing a nightly build over the top.  That way you get all the apps that come with the Alpha and all the recent bug fixes and improvements from the nightly.

[nicholas]

Doesn't Haiku require an MMU in the CPU?  NatAmi's N68050 won't have one.  I don't think the default softcore of the Replay board will either.

Yes it needs an MMU. The 060 would provide this if they allow a real CPU to be used in place of the soft core, like Yaqube's board for the Replay.

[nicholas]

I like how OS X requires tons of resources for just basic operations. Very mature in my book!

 There is only one reason I tolerate OSX these days and that is Logic Studio.