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SkyOS?
« on: November 26, 2003, 01:22:05 AM »
I just downloaded it. Seems sort of interesting, but not terribly useful. Anyone here tried it? Was it good? Terrible?
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2003, 02:12:36 AM »
whats the web address guy?
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2003, 02:14:04 AM »
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2003, 06:26:20 AM »
Ok. Tried it now... It was pretty much what I expected. Interesting, but I have no use for it. Deleting SkyOS, installing Aros again.

It's not bad at all though, so don't hesitate to try it. Slightly Amiga'ish too  ;-)
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2003, 08:58:34 AM »
I'll tell you one thing, it's not exactly goodlooking :-)

Why not check out Syllable? (http://syllable.sourceforge.net/)
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2003, 09:19:33 AM »
Syllable is quite ugly too.. :-)
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2003, 10:56:13 AM »
I tried it on my laptop, seemed a bit buggy, and was a bit slow (Too slow for 300MHz machine)

At least it managed to open 800x600 16bit screen, something, my Windows installation on same machina hasn't managed to do yet :-)

I'd say, why not try, but don't expect too much, at least not yet...
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2003, 12:08:50 PM »
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I tried it on my laptop, seemed a bit buggy, and was a bit slow (Too slow for 300MHz machine)


How's AROS, in comparision, on that same machine?  :-D
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2003, 02:42:35 PM »
@Jope
Well, better-looking than SkyOS IMHO.
Although I haven't tried either of them, Syllable seems rather interesting and pretty Amiga-ish too.
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2003, 04:36:23 AM »
Hey everyone,

I just wanted to say, I am the lead GUI designer for SkyOS. Up until version 4.0 (which would have been the version you all tried), Robert (the main coder) had done all the rudimentary GUI work. As of 5.0, there will be a new GUI that was picked from a contest with over 30 GUI entries and then edited to be more functional / good looking. You can see new screenshots of the SkyOS 5.0 GUI if you visit the homepage at http://www.skyos.org

Thanks for your interest! :)
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2003, 04:56:49 AM »
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I tried it on my laptop, seemed a bit buggy, and was a bit slow (Too slow for 300MHz machine)


How's AROS, in comparision, on that same machine?  :-D

 I've tried AROS on my 366MHz laptop, should be about the same as a 300MHz. The main UI is certainly quite usable, though I didn't experiment with too many apps.
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2003, 07:53:30 AM »
I found AROS to be much smoother in feel than SkyOS on my old laptop before it went belly up on me. This wasn't too long ago too. The thing that keeps me interested in SkyOS is how fast it is being developed. I watch AROS, SkyOS, and ReactOS with much anticipation for the future. . . much more than I do for anything commercial.
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2003, 11:00:47 AM »
If ONLY, if ONLY these teams would unite and go for one OS - AROS of course ;)

Seriously, I whish this was the case. Too many admittedly good projects at once, and they will probably not make it to a notable status outside a very close commmunity. There are even more projects like these, like AthenOS. Just look at ShellCity.

An Aros with a good browser and OpenOffice and Java developed by these highly talented people... sigh...

But these days, everyone does "his" own little thing. Even the Amiga has two rivalling groups.

Sigh

SIGH


Have fun,
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2003, 11:32:14 AM »
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If ONLY, if ONLY these teams would unite and go for one OS - AROS of course ;)

Seriously, I whish this was the case. Too many admittedly good projects at once, and they will probably not make it to a notable status outside a very close commmunity. There are even more projects like these, like AthenOS. Just look at ShellCity.

An Aros with a good browser and OpenOffice and Java developed by these highly talented people... sigh...

But these days, everyone does "his" own little thing. Even the Amiga has two rivalling groups.

Sigh

SIGH


Have fun,
McTrinsic


I agree it is a waste of resources to have so many projects doing the same thing... I will defend them by saying that variety is a good thing.

Sure it would be nice if everyone worked on AROS, but unfortunatelly everyone wants something different from an OS, which is why we have these projects.

I would appeal to them though, and ask that they attempts to pool resources on things like drivers.. if we had a common driver interface that would benefit all projects...
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Re: SkyOS?
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2003, 01:26:42 PM »
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I would appeal to them though, and ask that they attempts to pool resources on things like drivers.. if we had a common driver interface that would benefit all projects...


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