| Posted on 05-May-2000 12:17 GMT by Christian Kemp | 36 comments
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Did anybody on here hear about AtheOS, a free operating system for the Intel architecture released under the GPL license? I've been looking at the screenshots and see some familiarities...
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| Posted by Kurt Skauen on 04-May-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (Don Cox):
There is no "desktop screen" all the desktop's are equal. Since a window can live on multiple desktops simultanously, the desktop-manager open it's window(the one with icons on) on all desktops. The reason for the limit is that a each window have a bit-mask telling which window it should be present on. Personally I have the first 8 or so desktops configured to the max resolution my monitor or gfx-adapter (whatever is the least) can handle, then I have some lower resolution's on the last desktops where I can check how a GUI component or app look in low-res (I dont have a "magnify" app for AtheOS :). My main point is that the philosophy behind this is substantial different from the philosophy behind the screens in AmigaOS. In AtheOS you move to another desktop when the current is full of windows, in AmigaOS a window lives on a separate screen when it needs a special screen-mode.
Oh, and remember that this don't run on Amiga hardware. 4-bit screen modes is not even supported by AtheOS.
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