Testing of the OS's

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:52 pm

If anyone needs their OS tested, please let me know. I am really willing to do this.

Give me your:
OS name
Website, or download link
(Optional) a specific thing you want me to test.

-OR- just give me the name and (Optional) a specific thing to test.
I'll then look it up under the Projects wiki page.

So, Thanks...........

-JL

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:55 pm

You can test the new ver of DexOS dew out next week, thanks.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:44 am

Cool. I looked at DexOS a year ago, I'd like to see the changes.

-JL

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:14 am

Thanks, i will post here when i release it.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:06 pm

Haha i'm embarassed to admit it, but i have a computer dedicated to DexOS, it's had it on since i first downloaded it last year, and doesn't boot anything else (mostly because i removed the harddrive).

OrOS · Post by **OrOS** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:45 pm

Your OS looks great Dex..one thing.
http://www.dex4u.com/cdpod.htm
STOPPPPPPPPPP!!!! Looks to much like windows, my eyes BURNED when I looked at it.

(Flame, feel free to remove)

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:49 pm

would you like to post your computer's specification? that way I'd know if there's anything interesting to test. My OS hardly has anything useful at the moment, but I can use some statistics if you have something rare.

You may want to consider posting to the Test beds thread as well

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:04 pm

VMware running on openSuSE 10.2 64 bit
VMware Specs: 6GB IDE Hard Drive, 256MB Ram, Supported Floppy, CDDrive, Ethernet, Sound, USB. Anything Specific you need to know?

-JL

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:37 pm

@Tyler, thanks for the long term test .

@OrOS, That ok its skinably

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OrOS · Post by **OrOS** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:07 pm

Oh? Extension based, hard coded, or XML-type loading? IE: can you change UI elements without a recompile, restart, or even reloading the manager app.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:22 am

piranha wrote:Anything Specific you need to know?

After reading VMWare, not really, maybe except the host cpu type (for now i'd only be interested if you had a cyrix, geode, via or transmeta cpu)

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:41 am

Dex wrote:@Tyler, thanks for the long term test .

Haha, that's all good. It has had many long term runs as well, you should be happy to know it doesn't suffer from failure after 49 days like a certain companies Operating System of the past.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:01 am

After reading VMWare, not really, maybe except the host cpu type (for now i'd only be interested if you had a cyrix, geode, via or transmeta cpu)

Sorry, I forgot. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo (64 bit), 1066FSB, 1.86 GHZ Clock.

-JL

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:45 am

OrOS wrote:Oh? Extension based, hard coded, or XML-type loading? IE: can you change UI elements without a recompile, restart, or even reloading the manager app.

Its user's a raw format that is assembled with the gui code, but this could just has easy be load at run time, so can be changed on the fly.
I have enclosed a example of the window skin (NOTE: I uploaded it as a png, but it it would be in raw hex, with the first 2 dword the X and Y, the rest the image )

Combuster wrote:
piranha wrote:Anything Specific you need to know?
After reading VMWare, not really, maybe except the host cpu type (for now i'd only be interested if you had a cyrix, geode, via or transmeta cpu)

Now you should test your OS on at least 1 "cyrix", as they seem to act very differantly from normal cpu types.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:38 pm

Well, I can't do any long term tests, as I obsessively change settings on my computer until it crashes.

@Dex: 1. When will your new release come out?
2. I tested the current release and it said something about Vesa2 not supported...and went to a command line. But all other OS's are fine with Vesa.