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awakatanka
January 20th, 2006, 06:20 AM
Anyone tryed athene desktop?

If so is it working fast as they say on there site, And is it working as a desktop should work.

And what about there philosiphy you think its a good thing?

Downloading it atm so will post my idea's later, if the thread is readed hehe ;)

http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/index.html


Edit : there is no livecd only if you order it it can act as livecd and install. That sucks ;)
nocturn
January 20th, 2006, 06:42 AM
Anyone tryed athene desktop?

If so is it working fast as they say on there site, And is it working as a desktop should work.

And what about there philosiphy you think its a good thing?

Downloading the live cd atm so will post my idea's later, if the thread is readed hehe ;)

http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/index.html

Cool, I'm wondering about their X server. It's proprietary AFAIK, but I wonder if we can duplicate such a thing.
joselin
January 20th, 2006, 07:13 AM
Looks great, and says that is at least 25% faster than X11... but, isn't FREE.
awakatanka
January 20th, 2006, 09:02 AM
Looks great, and says that is at least 25% faster than X11... but, isn't FREE.
There is a free desktop addon for windows/linux.

But i wanted mainly some info from people that used it. Info about what they claim. a new tech that doesn't use x11 is also interesting.
nocturn
January 20th, 2006, 09:21 AM
There is a free desktop addon for windows/linux.

But i wanted mainly some info from people that used it. Info about what they claim. a new tech that doesn't use x11 is also interesting.

Basicly, it is similar to what OS X does, it implements an X11 compatible display protocol that is a lot faster.

I'm wondering how it compares to Xorg 7 though.
jdriessen
May 15th, 2008, 03:15 AM
Anyone tryed athene desktop?

If so is it working fast as they say on there site, And is it working as a desktop should work.

And what about there philosiphy you think its a good thing?

Downloading it atm so will post my idea's later, if the thread is readed hehe ;)

http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/index.html


Edit : there is no livecd only if you order it it can act as livecd and install. That sucks ;)

hey, so is it any good? I have an old thinkpad 600E for my mother, but most versions of windows run slow on it, I'd love to have a really fast version of linux that emulates the environment of windows.
I'm getting this laptop set up for my mother.