I long for a decent OS.

[CannonFodder]

Tomas wrote:

When i was talking about a txt editor, i meant something along the lines of notepad and a graphical equalent in the linux world. Even those has a noticable lag before they appear on the screen. Also things like opening a folder or similar seems to take too much time on both linux and windows. I want it to be so snappy that it gives the illusion of appearing right after pressing the button. Of course i cannot expect this with bigger office suites like word or openoffice, but i do expect it with simple and small applications. I guess it is just me who notice these things?  :-(

And yes, i have tried lightweight window managers like xfce and fluxbox before. Things seems a bit more reponsive, but is still not optimal to my eye. The only resposive OSes i have used on pc is BeOS and Aros but sadly neither of these are very usable today.

Try:-

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su
<passwd>
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade;
apt-get install prelink
cd /
prelink -afmRv


The 'R' needs to be a capital 'R', not lowercase 'r'.

[CannonFodder]

EDanaII wrote:
@ downward_s:

APCI just doesn't work, in my experience. A bit like most features that are supposed to make life easier.. it's just badly implemented.

Yup, and, personally, as a firm beleiver in the KISS philosophy, what's the better approach? A system that has to save the current state of the OS before it shuts down so that you can start it up quickly? Or an OS that just starts up quickly?

I prefer the solution with "the least moving parts." :-)

Ed.

I'd prefer the one that won't need to be started up more than once in a blue moon, this same one would also allow me to close the lid take a train or flight for four hours then instatly be back to the state i left it in when I open the lid.

Oh, I already have that? Silly me.

Linux, Windows XP, Mac OS X.  Take your pick, they all provide this functionality.

[CannonFodder]

MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64bit assembly language, and released under License. It supports 64 and 32 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.

Menuet has no roots within unix or the posix standards, nor is it based on any particular operating system. The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of an OS, which normally complicates programming and create bugs.

Menuet's application structure is not specifically reserved for asm programming since the header can be produced with practically any other language. However, the overall application programming design is intended for easy 64/32 bit asm programming. Menuets responsive GUI is easy to handle with assembly language.

http://www.menuetos.net/

[CannonFodder]

@Orig poster

DeLi Linux stands for "Desktop Light" Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, from 486 to Pentium MMX 166 or so. It's focused on desktop usage. It includes email clients, graphical web browser, an office package with word processor and spreadsheet, and so on. A full install, including XOrg and development tools, needs not more than 350 MB of harddisk space.

The trick is, that DeLi Linux uses only "lightweight" alternative software. If you are looking for the newest KDE, GNOME or Mozilla, DeLi Linux will not make you happy. The test computer is a 486 laptop with 16 MB RAM, and all apps which comes with DeLi Linux are running smoothly.

"Why the heck make a Linux for such old crap ?" you may ask. There are still many computers around with the configuration mentioned above, it would be a shame to waste them. Many people simply cannot buy a 4 Ghz machine for 1000 $ or more, but they can buy a Pentium I 133 for 50 $ from ebay. Many people are still happy with the computer they bought five years ago. Especially in the so-called third world, new hardware is not affordable. Well, there's still Windows95 or Windows 3.1, which will  run on these machines, too. But these versions are not supported by MS anymore, they are no longer in production, and finally, you will not get any software for this old Windows version.

http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/

[CannonFodder]

And there is always my personal favourite, if only for the lighting fast performance using the copy to ram option.

Austrumi Linux