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Review of AtheOS 0.3.7
MAIC-32 writes: "OSNews features a very informative and detailed review of AtheOS, the promising 32-bit GPL Operating System. The article describes the installation process, the GUI (screenshots included), usage, internal design, developement and much more."
Maybe it's fun to write something for the HELL of it, and not worry about it being useful. I'm sure whoever came up with linked lists back in the 60s was confronted by someone saying "they're so much slower than arrays - what's the point?"
Who gives a rat's ass if it's not useful to you? It's useful to the author, because he's learned a lot doing it, and he doesn't owe you shit. He probably doesn't give a fuck what you think about it, either.
I'll be very tempted to make the switch from Linux just to be reminded of the good old days of the Amiga.
//Wegge
The author doesn't want you to just use his OS. He's building it for himself, not for you or anyone else. He wont accept code (except bug fixes) into the main OS. He will only accept driver submissions.
It would be great if it did get these features, but at the end of the day, the direction that AtheOS goes in is solely the one that interests Kurt the most.
I could probably go on, but I won't. There is more on it's way too, specifically the desktop re-write will see some of the sexier features put to good use, and the media framework should rock. Anything specific you want to see first though?
Syllable : It's an Operating System
Q: Where does the name come from? Are you aware that atheos means "without god" in Greek?
A: The name is short for Athena (the Greek goddess of wisdom) and OS and have nothing to do with atheism. I was not aware that "atheos" indeed was a word in any language when I named the OS but figured that out later. Just think of it as a name. It is not supposed to mean anything.
Term Services != PC Anywhere or that other piece of crap x-like thing that AT&T put out.
Those things do all kinds of wierd stuff with your video drivers, and mirror the default window station on the wire, so they share the same keyboard and mouse. That's a piece of shit.
Term Services is in a seperate window station (you can TS into the default window station on XP but that will lock the interactive console). Only Windows Server have "real" TS. It compresses on the wire, and uses the characteristics of the remote video card -- the actual video card does't matter, so sometimes the graphics will actually be better than interactive.
You are *so* wrong.
> it'll be interesting to see how much development increases
On the core OS, not much.
http://www.atheos.cx/contribute.php
"I don't accept changes or patches to the core OS but I will happily accept patches to existing device drivers, new device drivers, utilities, applications and plugins of most types.
I want to keep the development of the kernel, native FS, GUI, desktop manager, and maybe a few other system components to my self"
rant
Kurt Skauen started the project with the intent of making an Amiga clone. He says in the FAQ, however, that there isn't much resemblance these days besides the window borders. The article did call him an ex-Amiga coder, he must like the look.
This is one of those things that I keep meaning to check out. Maybe now I will.
Who the *hell* is talking about writing a kernel using Perl?
As for C#, as a matter of fact, there *are* people trying to build a kernel using C#.
And for more robust than C++, that isn't very hard.
To mention *the* one language that I think should be used for kernel programming, Ada.
It's *way* more stable than C++, has the same plexibility, and if you are satisfied with the stability of your code, you can supress any/all of the checks that you want.
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for those who want to try out atheos but can't for some reason (unsupported hardware, no free partitions, etc.) there is a port of the gui to linux here.