Quick and functional OS

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:06 am

Okay, heres what I want:

I want an OS that boots from nothing to complete GUI usability in under 20 seconds. Preferably even less. I want it to be a mouse-controlled GUI, but it doesn't have to be pretty. It should have at least basic TCP/IP networking and a web-browser (even if its not very robust). Anything else would be nice extras of course.

I'm talking about a relatively out-of-the-box solution. I don't mind some tweaking and such if it achieves my goal though.

If you say linux/bsd/whatever please provide the distro/flavour/configuration whatever.

Hope you guys have some good suggestions!

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:13 am

You might want to check out MenuetOS.

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:11 am

va!n · Post by **va!n** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:23 am

you can buy a ipod... remove its drive and build into your pc... so booting windows is damn fast... only a few seconds... just give it a try!

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:37 am

I installed Vista Ultimate on a 8 GB USB flash drive and it boots in less than 15 seconds (4 second post time) from machine start to log-in screen.

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:21 am

Login screen doesnt count because of all those after-login programs you have to wait for.

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:30 am

Menuet looks great but sadly defeats the purpose for me since it runs from a floppy

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:59 am

PuppyLinux
Works from CD out of the Box, can be installed onto HD/USB/..., easy Config over GUI-Config toos and is damn fast.
Uses JWM as GUI, which looks similar to W95/W98, hast Desktop Icons.

www.puppylinux.org

There are several easy to config/use Unices.

Others could be:
ReactOS (W32 clone - PB ide works - If you have a ReactOS of FASM, it should work) www.reactos.org
It also boots really fast, hast Network + browser. Lots of W32 Apps work there.

www.syllable.org

www.aros.org

www.skyos.org/

I guess, there are some more, but I stopped searching.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:23 am

Buy one of these and put windows on it.

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:07 am

I haven't tried it, but they claim it's fast: http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:15 pm

I haven't tried it, but they claim it's fast: http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/

But it's just a commercial Linux with as customized FVWM...

Btw: I stopped, how long my Mandriva 2006 Linux box needs to boot.
44 Seconds from GRUB to GDM
49 Seconds from GRUB to fully loaded Desktop (Fluxbox + idesk)!
For an old PII (966 Mhz) with 512MiB RAM I think this is quite good.

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:32 pm

Derek wrote:Buy one of these and put windows on it.

http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/

I foud HyperOs OneClick SE on that site... sounds fine. Any comment about it?

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:33 pm

Anyone as allready tried MenuetOS?

Rescator · Post by **Rescator** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:50 pm

AROS? Nice seeing they are still at it. (native Amiga OS for x86 platform, aimed to be AmigaOS 3.1 compatible. (ROM I assume, thus 3.9 can be installed easily as well?))

I always liked the AmigaOS kernel.

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:16 pm

ricardo wrote:Anyone as allready tried MenuetOS?

It doesn't boot with diskette here(P II Klamath or such, 256MB RAM).