Simply Mepis 6.0-4 Beta 4 -- A gift from the MEPIS gods 64 Bit that actually works
Last fall we wrote a review that was generally well received on Simply Mepis 6.0. This is a very nice package out of West Virginia that takes KDE to Ubuntu in a more polished and solid way than even Kubuntu can do. Much was made by people, even on Distrowatch about little coming from the Mepis camp over the last couple of months, and then right around Christmas, sure enough here comes a nice little improvement package and much to my suprise a package offering 64 bit support.
Now, some may have seen the listing of my older eMachines m6805 laptop, which I have been struggling to get native 64 bit OS' on for almost 3 years now. Every now and then someone would offer up their version of 64 bit, and I would bite and try, only to fail one of many things, much of which was either DVD players or wireless woes. Now, that machine is now at the bottom of some scrap heap, but my replacement from Worst Buy was still a 64 bit machine from the new owners of eMachines, Gateway, with almost the same exact specs. So my dreams of being free of 32 bit still live on, yet I still cannot get a package that wants to work across the board...until now. More on that later, but let's give this new polished package a review before the Feb 10th expected launch and let people know if they should move over from other KDE systems to the one out of the Mountaineer state.
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I misunderstand the
I misunderstand the statement that SMP is inefficient. Given the correct hardware design, SMP is an extremely efficient architecture which can eliminate the need for multiple in-core copies of a kernel and at the same time allow for extreme inter-process communication speeds. While these hardware designs may have not yet hit the desktop, give it a couple of years.
There are numerous real-time operating systems available which take advantage of SMP design, not the least of which is VXworks and LynxOS. While these OS's flourish in a true embedded environment, they are lacking in the analysis tools they offer to assist applications developers. Look around before you buy.
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