This is the best description I can manage myself. Haven't had a chance to try out the OS. It does seem much more mature though and I have looked through the code base briefly when I was interested to see how another OS implemented certain functionality. It's definitely very runnable though... On Wed, May 08 @ 18:52, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: > > > > IMO, the AtheOS port (http://python.org/sf/488073) is ready for > > > integration. Would anybody object if I commit this change? > > > > I'd like to state it differently. What's the compelling reason for > > this? Does anybody even know what AtheOS is? > > >From the Web page (www.atheos.cx, which appears to be down at the > moment - ask Google for a cached copy): > > # AtheOS is a free desktop operating system under the GPL > # license. AtheOS currently run on Intel, AMD and other compatible > # processors and support the Intel Multi Processor architecture. I > # have seen quite a few anouncements of "promising" OSes with "great > # potential" during the development of AtheOS. The problem is that > # when I follow the links I normally find a description of the > # concept, a floppy-bootloader written in assembly, and not much > # else. AtheOS is a bit more mature, and is already running quite a > # lot of software. This server for example is running AtheOS. The HTTP > # server is a AtheOS port of Apache, and most of the content is > # generated by the AtheOS port of PHP3 and perl.The native AtheOS file > # system is 64-bit and journaled. > > The rationale for the patch as given by its author is that AtheOS > apparently comes with a Python 1.5.2 binary, and that he wanted to see > whether he could update it to the current Python. > > I'm copying Octavian Cerna to see whether he can come up with a good > reason why his patch should be included into Python - I was suggesting > to include because I saw no reason to reject it. > > Regards, > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev `-> (loewis) -- Michael Gilfix mgilfix@eecs.tufts.edu For my gpg public key: http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~mgilfix/contact.html
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