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Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features

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The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024.

The Haiku OS project has published their October 2024 status report that outlines some of the recent development efforts to this unique operating system.

Some of the Haiku accomplishments for the past month include:

- The Broadcom broadcom570x network driver now uses MSIs for interrupts where possible and in turn fixes support for a number of Broadcom devices.

- The VMXNET driver has been ported over from FreeBSD to support VMware's VMXNET para-virtualized network interface.

- The BFS file-system code now enjoys optimized search for the next free block that in turn makes for "greatly speed up" the creation and resizing of files on fragmented partitions.

- Fixing the boot process on systems with large amounts of RAM.

- Better handling systems with multiple batteries within the PowerStatus application.

More details on the recent Haiku development efforts via [1]Haiku-OS.org .



[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2024-11-06-haiku_activity_contract_report_october_2024/


phoronix

Several students were asked to prove that all odd integers are prime.
The first student to try to do this was a math student. "Hmmm...
Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, and by induction, we have that all
the odd integers are prime."
The second student to try was a man of physics who commented, "I'm not
sure of the validity of your proof, but I think I'll try to prove it by
experiment." He continues, "Well, 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is
prime, 9 is... uh, 9 is... uh, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is prime, 13
is prime... Well, it seems that you're right."
The third student to try it was the engineering student, who responded,
"Well, to be honest, actually, I'm not sure of your answer either. Let's
see... 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is... uh, 9 is...
well, if you approximate, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime... Well, it
does seem right."
Not to be outdone, the computer science student comes along and says
"Well, you two sort've got the right idea, but you'll end up taking too long!
I've just whipped up a program to REALLY go and prove it." He goes over to
his terminal and runs his program. Reading the output on the screen he says,
"1 is prime, 1 is prime, 1 is prime, 1 is prime..."