Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Aug 2006 17:52 UTC
NewsForge reviews Syllable, and concludes: "Overall, I was pleased with Syllable's speed and ease of use. Most of its drawbacks come from it not being finished yet. The glitches were minor and the lack of features in its applications come from them not being finished yet. I feel kind of guilty complaining that a browser that's on version 0.4 isn't full-featured enough, but for now, these issues prevent Syllable from being useful as a full-time desktop OS."
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Member since:2006-04-21
When Linux integrates proper Real Time support, its desktop performance should hopefully improve massively.
That said, for anything other than multimedia playback and software installation, SuSE 10.0 out of the box already beats the performance hell out of the most commonly used desktop OS, particularly if you load software to stop that OS looking like sh**.
RE[3]: Been done before
by RandomGuy on Wed 23rd Aug 2006 20:06
in reply to "RE[2]: Been done before"
Member since:2006-07-30
*cough* Don't tell me you found 10.0 usable! *cough*
It's crap compared with 10.1 imho.
Regarding linux and realtime:
Linus has stated several times that linux won't be realtime (that is: the main tree) because that's too much overhead for a very small gain in userbase...
Member since:2006-07-27
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DSL and the like are also pretty fast if you run them entirely in ramdisk.
I cannot compare it to BeOS/Haiku though, since I only ran Zeta from some live CD and was not really impressed. It was reading files from the CD way to often, I think.
But I'm sure a real install would have been a lot more responsive.
Also check Con Kolivas' patches if you want maximum responsiveness: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
It's still not hard realtime but it's pretty fast nevertheless.
That being said I suppose Haiku will still have an edge over linux because it is by design a responsive Desktop OS and (if I remember correctly) massively multithreaded.
@airjrdn:
There is currently no free CD on Yellowtabs page but you can get one here:
http://download.freenet.de/download.php?file_id=7560&download=ZETA~...
If you are confused because it's German:
Just click at the button "Download starten" within the first paragraph.
That's where I got my live CD from and I believe it's legal.
Edited 2006-08-23 19:51