Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Dec 2005 19:13 UTC, submitted by Tomasz Dominikowski
"The general feeling that SkyOS gives is... Simply great! A lot of work done under the hood seems to be paying back with a solid, responsive operating system. It scales very nicely, opening up a lot of OpenGL demos and other applications at once doesn't seem to affect stability, however it is currently very resource hungry (600MB RAM usage and up isn't anything strange while using Firefox, Gaim and having a few more apps open). Let us not forget that this is a debug build. It is completely usable and boots blazingly fast (~15 seconds from GRUB to desktop) though." My take: The best change? The new versioning scheme. Really.
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I think what Robert meant is that there is no distinction between disk cache and memory usage at the moment. Perhaps the same display is used for both.
I too am a beta tester and this release is very impressive and much more stable. The only thing I have to bitch about however is the lack of support for my high end video card (6800gt). Unfortunately though, it's up to nvidia to provide open source drivers, or Robert to hack up a drivers for unsupported hardware.
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Let me get this straight: the reviewer doesn't understand the difference between app-used and disk-cache RAM (as evidenced by Robert's correction at the bottom), and yet he leads the 'QA team'?
With all respect guys, I think you should find someone with a modicum more operating system knowledge to look after your quality assurance... :-)