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Haiku is full of little interesting design decisions like this. I would _love_ to have it running on a laptop (nearly there) or a Raspberry Pi (sadly, not likely to happen soon, because the initial ARM developments sort of shunned it and it's taken them a good while to re-focus).



Haiku's goal is being a full-fledged desktop/laptop OS, not a "mobile" OS; and most laptops and desktops right now are all x86, so that's what we primarily target.

What's preventing you from running it on a laptop now?


Proper power management and Wi-Fi. I have a Chromebook with Ubuntu that has well-supported OSS drivers but which won’t boot Haiku at all.


Yeah, proper power management is not likely to happen in the near future; it's a big task and nobody is working on it, due to ENOTIME.

Wi-Fi may be more reasonable, but we still depend on FreeBSD for that, so we're still behind Linux. What chipset do you have?

What do you mean by "won't boot Haiku at all"? No bootloader? Stuck on splash screen? Kernel panic?


Regardless, I’d rather have it run on a Pi. I don’t think of ARM as a mobile platform (at all).


What does ENOTIME mean?


Probably a nonexistent POSIX errno constant, corresponding to a nonexistent message like "No time available".




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