Favorite OS?

[Aeni]

Re: Favorite OS?

You know what the best part of Haiku is? You can get that old feeling you had using BeOS, an OS with no apps.



And that SSS-pc link could be more interesting if it was in a language 99% of the board reads. For instance, this one.
Also what SSS-pc does, or claims to do, has been done since the late 80's in a project that since 2000 has been open source. Written and lead by people that have written one of the worlds most successful and popular OS's Plan 9 from Bell Labs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSS-PC

SSS-PC is an operating system kernel with powerful scalability and load-balancing capabilities, created in Japan by Takashi MATSUMOTO, a professor at the University of Tokyo. It has superior functions for clustering, parallel processing and targeting server applications. Linux or Unix applications can be ported to SSS-PC directly. The C language BSD library is used. Instead of TCP/IP, an original protocol called Memory Based Communications Facilities (MBCF) was created. It has a unique scheduling strategy called Free Market Mechanism (FMM).

The OS is meant to be inexpensive, high-performing and built to run as a server for telecommunications systems capable of running 24 hours a day, non-stop. When connected to other servers in a cluster, it brings about powerful concurrent or parallel processing, high speed communication and automatic cluster reconstruction abilities: when one server or processing unit fails, it is detected and other members of the cluster automatically compensate for the failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used as a research vehicle. It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002. Plan 9 is most notable for representing all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user-interface, through the filesystem rather than specialized interfaces. Plan 9 aims to provide users with a workstation-independent working environment through the use of the 9P protocols. Plan 9 continues to be used and developed in some circles as a research operating system and by hobbyists.

Both may have the same idea, but SSS-PC is better compared with Beowulf than it is with Plan 9, which is a near-dead supported OS (All anyone is doing with this is updating the installation of the OS, not even doing anymore than that)

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Haiku (Variant of BeOS)
http://haiku-os.org/

You know what the best part of Haiku is? You can get that old feeling you had using BeOS, an OS with no apps.



And that SSS-pc link could be more interesting if it was in a language 99% of the board reads. For instance, this one.
Also what SSS-pc does, or claims to do, has been done since the late 80's in a project that since 2000 has been open source. Written and lead by people that have written one of the worlds most successful and popular OS's Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Aeni]

Re: Favorite OS?

Woo ... late to the game, as usual.

#1 SUSE
http://www.opensuse.org/

#2 FreeBSD
http://www.freebsd.org/

#3 Debian
http://www.debian.org/

#4 Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/

#5 SSS-PC
http://www.ssspc.org/ssspc/index-j.html

Best new OS ...

Haiku (Variant of BeOS)
http://haiku-os.org/

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

If i can firgure it out as linux noob, judging by your experience in posts, you wouldnt have any problem.

[Firaeon]

Re: Favorite OS?

Fluxbox is awesome but I don't feel like learning how to add an app dock, or some type of bar with shortcuts to applications on it.

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

Mhurron, that post would've made me really excited, if I hadn't just found THE WORLD'S BIGGEST WAFFLE FRY.

I know it's off topic, but goddamn, this lunch just got awesome.

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

You can use fluxbox with KDE.

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

I said I doubt, not that it didn't :p

I think that's the WM DSL uses, so I'm surprised it does handle transparency, although I suppose having it built into the window manager makes it lighter on system resources.

Those pictures are pretty sexy looking though, I might have to try that out on my next system, if I don't use KDE.

EDIT: Now you're gonna tell me I had something else installed and make me look like an idiot becuase I had forgotten it :p

nah, like I said, I doubt even feba makes mistakes. Rarely, but he does.


...like telling people I make mistakes.

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Fluxbox does support transparency (as do many other things, E and aterm among them) and has done for quite some time.

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom....ne_fluxbox.jpg
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom....a_fluxbox3.jpg

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

Fluxbox was it. Bang on the money there.

Hate to disagree with you though, especially as you are infinately more knowledgeable on this subject than I am, but it did support transparency.

I had an install of it on a work box when I was a mere apprentice, SS in link - warning, has a rather fine lady as background that some prude typees may find unsuitable for kids under...like 1.

http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?i...nshot2ht5.png][IMG]http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3286/screenshot2ht5.th.png

EDIT: Now you're gonna tell me I had something else installed and make me look like an idiot becuase I had forgotten it :p

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

Flux...or something it was called.

Fluxbox is one of the window managers, although I'm pretty sure it was one of the lighter weight ones. I doubt it did the transparency and stuff itself.

If you want cool desktop effects, try out Compiz/Beryl (Compiz Fusion should be out soon, the remerger of compiz and beryl), I'd take pictures of it, but I have a 3D game open, an 3D games and desktop effects just don't get along.

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

Hey I just remembered 1 very big reason why I even considered Linux for my desktop at home.

It was being able to use the transparency and other cool gadgets on CPU/Mem useage etc that caught my eye. Flux...or something it was called.

I ran Knoppix off CD and later installed Debian. Its all coming back to me now!

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

Am I the only one that finds it interesting that the poll has over ten times it's market share in love-ed-ness? And Vista about five times that? With XP nearly halved?

[Firaeon]

Re: Favorite OS?

Exactly how do you think Unix and Unix like OS's keep the system maintained and protected?

Well I know on MY Linux, I don't even have an anti-virus application.

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

How many desktop unix likes do you know that run ... defrag *at all*?

Every last one of them. Volume optimization is included in every decent Unix FS. You never see it because its a process that occurs in kernel space and you can not stop it.

Run a recent Red Hat distro? Them and increasingly others have SELinux extensions enabled by default until the user turns it off when they realize weird problems they are having are caused by it. SELinux checks every last function that occurs. Not process, function. Every read, every write, every directory listing, everything. It checks against it's little db of MAC permissions to see if you're allowed to do that.

Vista's background processes don't add any more then Linux's