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Offline MskoDestny

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Re: What is your next computer purchase?
« on: January 07, 2010, 10:30:12 PM »
Don't have any purchases planned for the near future; however, I just purchased a new desktop a couple of weeks ago. Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz
4GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Radeon HD 5770
32GB OCZ Vertex SSD (boot drive)
500GB WD Caviar Green (storage)
LG DVD burner with dual layer support
Windows 7 OEM and Ubuntu 9.10 dual boot

Cost me just over $900 including shipping from NewEgg. Only takes 15 seconds from the time I select Windows 7 from the GRUB until I have a login screen, even less from Ubuntu.
 

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Re: What is your next computer purchase?
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2010, 04:06:36 AM »
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Hey MskoDestny, how does Icaros Live run on your new PC? Must be pretty fast, have you tried the LiveDVD?

I lost interest in AROS quite a while back. I think a classic Amiga port of it would be interesting. With a bit of work, the hardware the Atari Coldfire Project is brewing up could be adapted for making a super classic Amiga of sorts (the work done on the Minimig should make that a bit easier). Using a port of AROS on such a machine rather than classic Amiga OS would reduce the overhead of the instruction emulation traps (since it could be compiled for Coldfire only old applications would trigger the traps) and make it easier to support all the hardware on the machine. Alas, I don't think anyone is even working on a classic port.

On x86, I don't see the point. If I wanted something simple and lightweight, but lacking in software there's Haiku and Syllable. Those have memory protection, resource tracking, SMP support and generally have a much more modern architecture.