Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 05:07 UTC
AmigaOS 4.1, which recently finally got a whole lot more accessible, has been reviewed by Ars Technica's Jeremy Reimer. "Long after most people had given it up for dead, companies such as Hyperion Entertainment Inc. are hard at work improving and enhancing the operating system. I had a change to look at a preview copy of the latest release, AmigaOS 4.1, and it is an impressive piece of work." Hardware 3D compositing, memory protection, virtual memory, a modern browser, and performance improvements are among the new features of AmigaOS 4.1. As a sidenote, OSNews will review AmigaOS 4.1 on the Sam440ep in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
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Indeed. I read that part and the phrase "whistling in the dark" immediately came to mind. For all the "we can be just as fast" talk coming out of the Mozilla camp, their crufty old 373MB code base is going to make it hard to keep up with WebKit's lean, clean, and mean 60MB of pure muscle. Gecko was designed back when the Internet was still just a bunch of static pages. Epiphany-Gecko and Epiphany-Webkit make it easy to compare speed and memory consumption between the two, and it's not looking good for the big lizard.
Edited 2008-09-23 07:03 UTC