Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Sep 2007 20:52 UTC
At OSNews, we have kept you updated about the Amiga hardware announced by ACK controls. Supposedly ready for shipping in May, we are now in the second half of September, and still no hardware. Interestingly, nor ACK Controls, nor Amiga, Inc., will be present at the upcoming Amiga show Pianeta Amiga - leading to the inevitable conclusion that like so many other announcements in the Amiga world, this one was yet another big puff of air. All hope is not lost, though: ACube Systems has announced the SAM440ep, a PowerPC board, of which industrial versions are already available (according to ACube). The consumer version is supposedly ready to ship starting 22nd September 2007, and interestingly, Hyperion will be present at the ACube booth at Pianeta Amiga. Finally, new Amiga hardware? Seeing is believing, many will say.
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Member since:2007-05-08
The problem is that those operating systems take too long to boot up, slog through their swap files, and shut down. ADDING stuff to them will only make the problem WORSE. We need somebody to subtract some of the overhead.
That overhead is all those services a modern OS needs unless someone would like to stick 1980 like era of functionality. Delete all daemons from init script and you will see Linux booting immediately.
Member since:2005-07-06
I'll have to disagree with you on that. The startup time of e.g. Linux is partly because SysV style init can be improved upon considerably, and partly because a lot of stuff is jammed into an essentially linear, synchronous, initialisation that isn't needed I.e. I don't have a BlueTooth controller on any of my machines, nor PCMCIA slots. I don't have an HP printer either, but Ubuntu will still always start HP-PLIP for some reason.
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2005-11-19
The problem is that those operating systems take too long to boot up, slog through their swap files, and shut down. ADDING stuff to them will only make the problem WORSE. We need somebody to subtract some of the overhead.
I've got a Zenwalk Linux dual-boot on my desktop waiting for adequate dial-up internet support but other than that it's fast enough and doesn't need to swap very often or anything. The micro-builds need more attention and monsters like Fedora and SUSE need less.