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Quick and functional OS
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:06 am
by dracflamloc
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!
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:13 am
by Brice Manuel
You might want to check out
MenuetOS.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:11 am
by KarLKoX
+1
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:23 am
by va!n
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!
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:37 am
by SFSxOI
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:21 am
by dracflamloc
Login screen doesnt count because of all those after-login programs you have to wait for.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:30 am
by dracflamloc
Menuet looks great but sadly defeats the purpose for me since it runs from a floppy
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:59 am
by bembulak
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:23 am
by Derek
Buy one of these and put windows on it.
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:07 am
by Trond
I haven't tried it, but they claim it's fast:
http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:15 pm
by bembulak
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:32 pm
by ricardo
I foud HyperOs OneClick SE on that site... sounds fine. Any comment about it?
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:33 pm
by ricardo
Anyone as allready tried MenuetOS?
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:50 pm
by Rescator
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:16 pm
by DarkDragon
ricardo wrote:Anyone as allready tried MenuetOS?
It doesn't boot with diskette here(P II Klamath or such, 256MB RAM).