Robert Szeleney released today a newer version of SkyOS, which fixes a number of problems and adds new features. Our Take: Many people have reported problems with the PS/2 mouse (which I also experienced on my laptop, but works fine on my desktop PC), however my Voodoo5 fails to load the desktop with the included VESA driver. I wonder if anyone was succsesful loading SkyOS with a Voodoo3/4/5 card.
SkyOS 3.7.5 Released
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I just have one question. Why should i give SkyOS a try?
I love trying new and diffrent Operating systems. For some reason i just find it exciting (so far i have really enjoyed both BeOS and QNX, i would be useing one of them if i could ever get my ethernet adapter to work).
But i can not figuer out what makes SkyOS diffrent. I would love to try it, and might some time, but untill i find a good reason to give it a shot, i think i will just play with Be and QNX more.
SkyOS is a young OS, it is not as mature as BeOS or QNX. If you have the geek gene in you, then you would love to give it a try just for the kicks. Especially if you are a developer. Simple users probably won’t have much need or usage for it yet.
Many, and by many i mean almost all, small OSes have problems with Voodoo based cards. The problem isnt the video driver, the problem is the card itself. Its not entirely VESA compliant, and so the driver just tends to crap out with it.
I just got a Voodoo 3 and will try to fix this VESA bug as soon as possible. Thanks for the feedback.
Let say this first, I havent tried the OS, but it lookes so ugly that I dont want to try it.
First of all I tried BeOS for the Look (Was very tired of Windows98), then I was sold for the speed, and all the geek apps..feeling etc..
Thank you Be, for not creating a UI like SkyOS..
/Konrad
You always have someone who has to belittle other peoples fine work dont you? When fact is you have no right, i dont see you offering to improve it or make a better UI, so keep your stuipd comments to yourself.
Will,
ps. No I’ve never used skyos and dont intend to, but comments like that just really get on my nerves
If you dont think the user interface is nice, thats your opinion, but you dont need to go and bash the OS because of it. Some people (mostly intelligent people) realize that there is more to an OS than a nice UI. Making it nice isnt hard, so generally they dont put extreme amounts of effort while its not needed. I much rather see an OS project with work being done on the kernel level than a pretty OS who’s creators have forgotten to code the API.
Robert: i suggest you create an new driver just for Voodoo seeing how they are at fault and not your driver.
Try OSX if you haven’t already. Any fancier and you can kiss your speed goodbye.
Thanks for you really productive comment, Konrad.
Comparing an OS developed by professional programmer for a company like Be to a “hobby OS” like SkyOS is one of the more original things I’ve read today…
Don’t waste your time responding to people like Konrad. Just ignore them and they’ll go away.
well, making an OK GUI is not hard, but making a truly nice one is very hard. look at Apple, they spend millions on GUI development and reseach. they have hit it on the nose for the basic “what makes the BEST UI” but then they over shoot by assing in a bunch of feeatures taht the user does not need, and some do not want. I would think that the least Apple could to is add a UI configuration application in the settings menu, but they neglected that so you can not even throtle back the fancy stuff that slows it down.
it is hard to hit it just right.
well, I can boot off the floppy just fine … however it asks for the /dev/ location of my CD-ROM and I can’t input a slash! Strange.
Anyhow, looks to be making progress.
The / is on the SHIFT+7 (the numeric keypad above the letters).
Robert, you are _really_ using a non-standard keymap here that confuses all the western people.
I wanna write the Intell NIC driver for it, but under the download/source section, there are no links!
It seems almost identical to the Finnish one, and everybody knows that Finnish keypads are the sine qua non of standard compliance. I could immediately use the slash, it’s there, on the top of “7”, clearly visible.
What the heck do you yankees use there, together with your NTSC, miles and fahrenheits?
;o)))))))))
>What the heck do you yankees use there, together with your
>NTSC, miles and fahrenheits?
Don’t forget the inches, miles and feet etc…
it was hard for me to use when I came here and still is, thankfully, Canada is more metric than US
I am Greek. And I am using the UK keymap. I do not like the US keymap, I am used to the UK one. But even the UK, Greek and USA one, do not have the / above 7.
Wanna know why there’s no slash above the 7? Because there ISN’T! It’s &! And the symbols above the numbers are as follows:
!@#$%^&*()
1 to 0 (the 0 comes after the 9, don’t ask me why…)
The forward slash (“/”), on my keyboard is actually just to the left of the Shift key, below the ?. The backslash (“”) is just to the left of the backspace key.
Anyone else have a similar layout here in The US of America? 🙂
Jared
SkyOS uses a german keyboard layout as default. (Because I’m from austria). I will change this in the next version because most people which are using SkyOS have english/american keyboards.
Thanks.
Thats my keyboard layout too.
Hey yankees, luv ya :o)