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Haiku OS Ported To Intel 64-Bit Architecture

Posted by Soulskill on from the five-and-seven-syllables-at-a-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BeOS-compatible Haiku OS operating system has been ported to x86_64. As part of the Google Summer of Code, a student made a 64-bit port of the kernel and user-space and it's now working. However, not all of the BeOS apps and drivers are yet working in 64-bit mode."

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  1. Whoo Hoo! by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    now I can run a text editor with more than 3.1 gigs of ram

  2. AMD64 != Intel64 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The correct term for x86_64 is AMD64, not "Intel 64-bit architecture". AMD developed it, and licenses the patent to Intel. Intel64 is Itanium, to which Haiku has NOT been ported.

    1. Re:AMD64 != Intel64 by Guy+Harris · · Score: 4, Informative

      The correct term for x86_64 is AMD64, not "Intel 64-bit architecture". AMD developed it, and licenses the patent to Intel.

      Yes.

      Intel64 is Itanium,

      No. IA-64 was Itanium, but that architecture (which I think started out as an HP architecture) is now just called the Itanium architecture. "Intel64" is Intel's name for the 64-bit architecture as originally defined by AMD, modulo some differences and modulo Intel and AMD going their own and subsequently modified by both parties with different flavors of SSE4.

      to which Haiku has NOT been ported.

      Haiku was not ported to IA-64/Itanium. It was ported to whatever you want to call the 64-bit x86 architecture (I prefer x86-64, with my second choice being AMD64, although I guess if you want to include Intel's version of SSE4 rather than AMD's version, that's "Intel64").

    2. Re:AMD64 != Intel64 by hairyfeet · · Score: 3, Interesting

      What is wrong with just x64? We had x86 for years and now we're all using x64 chips, whether our OSes are 64bit or not. Its short, simple, and to the point.

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    3. Re:AMD64 != Intel64 by jkflying · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because 64 is less than 86, so 86 must be better, right?

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    4. Re:AMD64 != Intel64 by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: 4, Informative

      x64 is misleading. The x86_64 still uses the underlying architecture and instruction set of the original Intel 8086.. Changing the name to x64 would imply the instruction set is different from that of x86 - and while the instruction set has been extended it still (as far as I know) still support the instructions designed in the 70s.

      I personally find x86_64 the most descriptive designation for a 64-bit x86-processor.

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  3. Could become the 'Desktop Linux' by buchner.johannes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only the community of software developers could conquer a community of designers and graphics people to collaborate without charge on a free operating system.

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  4. I want to be happy about this by ThorGod · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but, I can't be. Yeah, BeOS *was* awesome and I really *wanted* to see BeOS 5 (I remember one of the versions had a nifty menu system where the selector followed your selections as you drilled down).

    But, come on, it's 2012. Maybe it's time to call it a day.

    Actually, I take that back. I think this is just some Google summer of code project. Great for the student who ported the kernel! Not really big news outside of that, though...

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  5. Watch this.... by mark-t · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait. Now we'll see
    Everyone posting haikus
    Typical Slashdot.

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  6. Re:Why do we keep hearing about this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not a near-useless state. It works. There's a decent amount of software out there. It's fun. It's a hobby.

    It gets brought up on Slashdot because it's news for nerds (not everything here is stuff that matters). It's a nice trip down memory lane for BeOS geeks.

    Haiku might not change the world, but most things don't. Sure is fun, though!