Why do people buy Imacs and G4 Cubes.
Because a normal PC is clumsy and has too many cables.
I would trade my normal PC for this computer any day, it is easily fast enough and it wont take any space om my writing desk.
I think PC's like this will be an important part of the future of desktop computing. But that is just my opinion.
Whats yours?
Re:Cool... is this the modernized Amiga?
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The bandwith is being eaten up. The server can cope. (I have this from the guy who wrote Atheos).
The gui can be replaced in no time as it is loaded as an addon to the application server. And please notice that the application server is not anything like X-Windows. It is more like the appserver found in BeOS.
As for the software ports, I think Kurt modified XEmacs quite heavily before it compiled. And QT is not available, even though there are some similarities between QT and the Atheos API.
The kernel implements some of the LibC functionality to allow easy porting of some Linux applications!
Re:Amiga influences possibly?
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Well in the early days Atheos gui was modelled a bit like the Amiga gui. But this is being changed now to give the Atheos a better look and feel!
And yes you can write addons for the application server that changes the look and feel of the OS!
Re:Can it be good if it's built for a certain Chip
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I see nothing in the Atheos code that is non portable.
Of course one would have to rewrite portions of the kernel, but that can be managed.
I think it is just as portable as the next os. Excluding products from a certain company
The Atheos is a free GPL'ed operating system, using many of the popular GNU tools, and some opensource programs have been ported (Apache for instance).
The system still suffers from a lack of drivers, but those will get there eventually.
One of the major differences between Atheos and Linux is that Atheos does not use an X server to do graphics. The graphics is handled by an application server, that also handles IPC. This is a BeOS like approach to doing things.
This system is still in the early stages, but it works really well and rarely crashes.
The installation procedure is horrible, but it is manageble.
Be's Allan Anderson responds: You know, it's ironic...because we don't actually use the specific Electric Fence stuff anywhere in our code. We had been looking at making it work with some MALLOC_DEBUG levels, but it never worked right. So, tho it is in libroot.so, it never gets used. We just never got around to cleaning it out. We'll fix it. Too bad we won't fix it before the Pro CDs go out...
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Because a normal PC is clumsy and has too many cables.
I would trade my normal PC for this computer any day, it is easily fast enough and it wont take any space om my writing desk.
I think PC's like this will be an important part of the future of desktop computing. But that is just my opinion.
Whats yours?
The gui can be replaced in no time as it is loaded as an addon to the application server. And please notice that the application server is not anything like X-Windows. It is more like the appserver found in BeOS.
As for the software ports, I think Kurt modified XEmacs quite heavily before it compiled. And QT is not available, even though there are some similarities between QT and the Atheos API.
The kernel implements some of the LibC functionality to allow easy porting of some Linux applications!
And yes you can write addons for the application server that changes the look and feel of the OS!
Of course one would have to rewrite portions of the kernel, but that can be managed.
I think it is just as portable as the next os. Excluding products from a certain company
Kurt has done an amazing job writing a new OS.
The Atheos is a free GPL'ed operating system, using many of the popular GNU tools, and some opensource programs have been ported (Apache for instance).
The system still suffers from a lack of drivers, but those will get there eventually.
One of the major differences between Atheos and Linux is that Atheos does not use an X server to do graphics. The graphics is handled by an application server, that also handles IPC. This is a BeOS like approach to doing things.
This system is still in the early stages, but it works really well and rarely crashes.
The installation procedure is horrible, but it is manageble.
So I can only encourage you to try it out
Be's Allan Anderson responds:
You know, it's ironic...because we don't actually use the specific Electric Fence stuff anywhere in our code. We had been looking at making it work with some MALLOC_DEBUG levels, but it never worked right. So, tho it is in libroot.so, it never gets used. We just never got around to cleaning it out. We'll fix it. Too bad we won't fix it before the Pro CDs go out...