The prime feature is the continuation of the multi-monitor topic of the previous release, covering multi-monitor window management and going as far as seamlessly integrating multi-monitor virtual machines (Section Multi-monitor window management and virtual machines). The second and long anticipated feature is the Chromium engine version 112 in combination with Qt 6.6.2, which brings our port of the Falkon web browser on par with the modern web (Section Qt, WebEngine, and Falkon browser). On the account of exploratory activities, we are happy to report that Qemu can now be used directly on Genode (Section Qemu on Genode).
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Another incredibly impressive set of improvements to Genode, which will benefit Sculpt OS, too of course. Aside from the improvements mentioned above, there’s also new support for Intel’s Meteor Lake and embedded F&S MX8MP armStone boards, improvements to USB and audio, and much more.
It’s crazy how they just go and port Blink/Chromium and Qemu, while most alternative OS (that are not Unix or Haiku) don’t have a modern browser nor a way to host a VM. I’m thinking about RISC OS, AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, OpenVMS, ArcaOS, and so on.
RISC OS is far too primitive to be able to run a Chromium-based browser. Even if it was ported, it would be painful to use on RISC OS’s single-core, co-operative multitasking kernel (and bearing in mind the Raspberry Pi is probably the fastest platform available). RISC OS was fine back in 1987 but by the mid-90s it was getting very creaky, even with the updates.
Genode, by contrast, is more recent and better designed.
Well the sad truth is the original BEos inspiration small super performance of Haiku died the Moment they became a Linux Distribution by using lots of Linux Software including a current Browser as natively there is none. Now they can run software from Linux and the desire and need is gone to build something native. I was really looking forward to natively using it now it’s not interesting anymore at all. It’s like using freebsd on a laptop with unsupported Wi-Fi, making a Linux container with network card pass through
You realise the article is about Genode, which is not to do with Haiku. I do appreciate that the two systems tend to appeal to a similar audience, and both are C++ written.
p.s. Haiku is not a linux distribution: it uses its own kernel.