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  • Haiku's Plans For OpenGL Hardware Acceleration On Intel

    Phoronix: Haiku's Plans For OpenGL Hardware Acceleration On Intel

    One of the interesting 2017 Google Summer of Code projects is a student developer attempting to enable hardware OpenGL/3D acceleration support under the BeOS-inspired Haiku OS...

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  • #2
    Congratulations. An extraordinary important step. Now the same thing with radeon and this is an actual operating system, not just some project. I wish these guys the best. The filesystem with tags is nice too but I don't know any further pros and cons.

    Maybe there is a wiki page somewhere which tells me: Why Haiku/BeOS and how is it different?

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    • #3
      I tried Haiku once. I admire how it seems to try and simplify many aspects of the OS. I didn't feel at home though, I'm a power user who likes to tinker with things! AROS managed to get i915 acceleration working so I imagine Haiku will too.

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      • #4
        i'm still convinced that making a Vulkan driver is better than OpenGL.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Setlec View Post
          i'm still convinced that making a Vulkan driver is better than OpenGL.
          Yeah well a Vulkan 2 driver is probably better than a Vulkan driver. But lets start with one thing shall we

          I just hope hardware acceleration support doesn't start people justifying terrible desktop environments (as found in Linux) on Haiku.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Setlec View Post
            i'm still convinced that making a Vulkan driver is better than OpenGL.
            A Vulkan driver will need this same kernel DRM code anyway. They've already got Mesa compiling, so the Vulkan driver is probably close to working as soon as this project is done as well.

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            • #7
              Why?
              Why not put the effort into something more meaningful.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by hax0r View Post
                Why?
                Why not put the effort into something more meaningful.
                Because Open Source is a meritocracy and not a socialist system. Work is not assigned to willing participants for the "greater cause", whatever anyone thinks that is. Nobody will just work for free on projects they don't care about. They work on projects that interest them.

                This human nature is incidentally why communism is not as comparably effective at producing decent living standards when comprared to capitalism.

                When was the last time you decided that your own effort would be better spent dedicating your efforts to a software project that someone else considered more meaningful than whatever you were doing yourself, without any kind of personal interest in that other software yourself?


                That's why - and it's the same answer every time this question is asked.
                Last edited by philcostin; 06 May 2017, 06:15 AM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by philcostin View Post

                  Because Open Source is a meritocracy and not a socialist system. Work is not assigned to willing participants for the "greater cause", whatever anyone thinks that is. Nobody will just work for free on projects they don't care about. They work on projects that interest them.

                  This human nature is incidentally why communism is not as comparably effective at producing decent living standards when comprared to capitalism.

                  When was the last time you decided that your own effort would be better spent dedicating your efforts to a software project that someone else considered more meaningful than whatever you were doing yourself, without any kind of personal interest in that other software yourself?


                  That's why - and it's the same answer every time this question is asked.
                  Can you please not post bullshit political propaganda?

                  The actual answer is much less political than what you stated. And I'm going to ignore the bullshit you posted about politics for the sake of not going OT.

                  Opensource is also a hobby, so it does not necessarily need to be "meaningful" for the world at large, they could have used the same time to water their roses or do any other real-life activity that is meaningless for the world.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by hax0r View Post
                    Why?
                    Why not put the effort into something more meaningful.
                    Because they like it. Opensource is also a hobby.

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