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I guess I'm not surprised. 100% discussion about whether Haiku deserves to exist, zero discussion about the post. Can anyone talk about the significance of the removal of the hard processor limit?

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Everyone is an OS consumer. Far fewer are running Haiku on a 9+ core server. Write what you know.

To be fair, the scheduling might matter if a reader considered writing a library for Haiku. Can't game the system by surrendering a lock before the slice ends anymore. :-B

It's good to remove hardcoded limits, but everything I see in this post looks like it was implemented in Linux and FreeBSD years ago. I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere, but it's not that clear why Haiku has its own kernel at all.

Because it can. Also, because doing things differently is fun. It's API is something to behold, and besides, would you say the same thing about Plan 9, or BSD, etc?

The BeOS user API is interesting. It's not clear to me that the kernel is actually different in any appreciable way.

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