Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
Once I had Syllable installed, I was floored by how fast it was on my test machine, a 1.8GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM. Syllable blew away Windows, Linux, and Solaris as far as speed is concerned. From the time the boot loader came up to the time the login prompt appeared was just under eight seconds. It took another two seconds or less from the time I logged in to the time the desktop was ready to go."
Posted Aug 23, 2006 19:04 UTC (Wed)
by anonymous21 (guest, #30106)
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Hopefully, Syllable is an exception.
Mark
Posted Aug 24, 2006 20:47 UTC (Thu)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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I sure hope so too, but... NOTE: You should never delete the application object. This could cause both the app and the OS itself to crash. If it's not a joke, then... they still got a lot of space to cover before it can be called "an OS", and not "a toy OS"...
Posted Aug 23, 2006 23:32 UTC (Wed)
by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)
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Incidentally, for amazing speed, try MenuetOS. Full GUI (but not many apps yet), all on a single floppy, hand coded in assembly!
Posted Aug 24, 2006 1:36 UTC (Thu)
by jstAusr (guest, #27224)
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Posted Aug 24, 2006 6:00 UTC (Thu)
by eru (subscriber, #2753)
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Posted Aug 24, 2006 13:17 UTC (Thu)
by kpower (guest, #37136)
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Posted Aug 24, 2006 16:54 UTC (Thu)
by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)
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A whole OS written in assembler? My mind boggles at how hard that must have been to write.
Posted Aug 24, 2006 23:22 UTC (Thu)
by vmole (guest, #111)
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Geoworks was a GUI/Application system that ran on XT and AT class systems. It was *all* 8086 assembler, and quite a bit faster than the roughly equivalent Windows 3.0. AOL apparently used it as the underlying system for their client for a while.
As you might expect, the machines got faster and they got out evolved by Windows because the Microsofties didn't have to do register allocation by hand. Pretty much what happened between Lotus 123 and Excel.
Posted Aug 24, 2006 1:42 UTC (Thu)
by stevenj (guest, #421)
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fast and buggy are things you might expect of a new OS.Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
Maturity tends to slow things down, as frameworks are put in place to manage problems a new system doesn't know it needs to manage yet.
Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
The thing is, what slows down Linux boot is mainly system services. I'd bet that Syllable probably doesn't run all the things a linux box does (apache, postgres, sshd, cups...). Also, boot speed isn't really what matters if you only boot once every few months. That said, Linux (the whole thing, not just the kernel) could do with some speed improvements. Much as I love choice, it really isn't exactly efficient to have so many dependencies!Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
I really like short licenses but to be useful it should address modification and redistribution at least.Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
http://www.menuetos.net/m64l.txt
Eh? That license is for MenuetOS. We are talking about Syllable here,
which seems to be under standard GPL.
Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
He was responding to this:
Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
Incidentally, for amazing speed, try MenuetOS. Full GUI (but not many apps yet), all on a single floppy, hand coded in assembly!
Which is what the prior commentor mentioned.
> Incidentally, for amazing speed, try MenuetOS. Full GUI (but not many appsSyllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
> yet), all on a single floppy, hand coded in assembly!
Syllable: A different open source OS (NewsForge)
According to the Syllable FAQ, it's a fork of AtheOS due to the "lack of progress" in the latter. So, it's not quite as new as the Newsforge article might make you think.
it's a fork of AtheOS