I'm intrigued....
Makes apps feel faster, it can't actually make them run faster, it just use better scheduling, etc to make everything more responsive to users. For example any well threaded program will always be responsive because you can make sure nothing is blocking the UI threads.The multithreading system of the OS and the apps makes it fast yes and also provides other advantages.
The core Linux kernel is 3.3M (a full fedora one not my stripped down one that is 1.9M), and the sum of it fedoras modules is 79M (again mine is just 29M), so 60M is not great. The main arguments for mirco kernel are stability & security, performance of micro kernels is hurt by IPC (given the need of all kernels to perform on multiple cores this is less of an issue) and lack of module reuse (if you have 2 drivers they cannot share code while running) resulting in a larger foot print not a smaller one!Haiku uses a "micro kernel" which the last I heard a few years back was only around a tiny 60mb in size and once again means advantages including speed. Linus said the other day that the Linux kernel is now basically bloated or bloatware, or the total opposite of Haiku's tiny micro kernel.
Linus never said the kernel was bloatware, this is very differnt from the kernel being bloated. p.s I have only seen one attempt at a micro-kernel development and things didn't go well and while apple apparently run a hybrid kernel, I think you you could call the linux kernel hybrid as it's modularity is similar to a micro-kernel despite being a macro kernel.
is BFS really up there with modern filesystems such as reiser4, btfs and ofc ZFS?The BFS the same and was opened sourced by Be Inc and released before they shut down along with some other code. This helps with speed and has other advantages too.
Given that haiku is OSS would a wine like program be possible if it takes off allowing beos programs to run on linux?By the way, if this hasn't already been posted. This distro will not run beos programs.
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