On 14 May 2010, at 22:41, Philip Grant wrote: > Hello there, I'm sorry, I don't know who this email is going to, other than > the mailing list owner... > > I was wondering how to respond to the discussion started... Re: What kernel > would you put it on? (by Oliver Oli) > I think I need an instruction manual just to reply to the email..! I tried to > just respond and got the message back, "You are not allowed to post to this > mailing list..."
If you're subscribed to the list, you should be able to post. Please check your subscription settings here: https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss/ If you are using some kind of bridge, like gmane or google groups, then you might not be able to post. > I'm no programmer, so, much is often over my head at times, but I have a > particular interest in where you are going with the Étoilé project and what > might be considered prerequisites for a future operating system. The > granularity of document composition that you are working on is a relief to > see. To know that people are working towards something sensible. I've never > joined in the discussion before, but just tried to proffer this: I'd been > wondering if there would be any reason Symbian wouldn't scale to the desktop > or for use with a high number of processors, as that's the direction we are > going? There's no reason why Symbian can't scale to multicore systems - it's a microkernel design and already splits things into a lot of threads and processes, so it should scale nicely. The next version is targeting the current generation of ARM MPCores, which have 1-4 cores in a handheld. > Also, has anyone any thoughts on Haiku as a base system for Étoilé? Their > project is busy playing catch up, to match the spec of the last Be OS > release. Seems to have a very strong and sure momentum and it was > particularly intended for multi-processor and media application. But, is it > missing out on anything at this stage or held back by anything in particular, > do you think? It's not really useful for Étoilé. It has its own stuff for the user interface layer, which, being C++ and not at all like any platforms GNUstep runs on, is not helpful to us. Running on Haiku would mean replacing a lot of the bits that people associate with Haiku, so it's not particularly interesting. David -- Send from my Jacquard Loom _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
