Be-Alike: BlueOS Uses Linux For Its Kernel

OSBlue writes "A few days ago, news emerged regarding the OpenBeOS project, while now there is more information regarding the other effort to 'save' BeOS, BlueOS. BlueOS uses the Linux kernel 2.4.12 and Xfree as as the base of their OS. For now, they are building a BeOS look-alike Interface Kit and BeOS app_server on top of XFree, so it is not just a simple window manager, but a whole new API and environment. In future versions, the BlueOS team will completely bypass XFree and have a stand alone BeOS compatible app_server which will only use some of the XFree's system calls to be able to use its 2D/3D drivers. Guillaume Mailard, team leader in the BlueOS project gives more information in an interview to OSNews."

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Re:Threading will be a huge problem

[Adnans]

For example, every single GUI element of a BeOS app is at least 1 thread, possibly more...

No, every single BWindow has its own thread. All GUI elements in this window are controlled by the window looper. Of course you can spawn additional threads per window, but it's not as horrible as you sketch :)

Linux was not designed to create and destroy such a large amount of threads so frequently.

It wasn't? Who said this? It sure does rock then for a system that has supposedly slow thread creation. I just wrote a tiny app that spawns 1000 threads in less than half a second. That's should be enough for the things they want to do. I can't imagine anyone creating more than 1000 windows per half a second :-)

How are you going to deal with this problem?

Apparantly this is not a problem at all!

-adnans