Eye Os is a true Open Sourced Cloud OS[1][2][3] , and quite efficient at that,the current version LARS boasts of package management , Office Apps, Games [yes it has Frozen bubble too ;) ] , and plethora of other softwares..as a picture is worth thousand words here are Screen shoots of Eye Os under use.
I am writing this blog to clear out few doubts people have with them with regards to the present day Web Browsers. Most of them are skeptical about using any new web browser other than the ones that come pre-installed / packaged with the OS. One of my best friend Shashank Singh a.k.a. Shanky aptly said “I am not against browser choice but it should be full-informed decision not some came-packaged-with-os & ie8-is-the-bestest types reasons”. To build upon this idea, I started with the endeavour to test few of these browsers using the ACID3 test. To have a little history of this issue/conversion you can follow this FaceBook link.
The Browsers used (all on Windows XP)
Apple Safari 4.0 (530.17)
Google Chrome 2.0.172.31
Safari on my iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0
Opera 9.64
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
Internet Explorer 8.0
Internet Explorer 6.0
Now to test the performance of these browsers I used ACID3 test, because most of the websites today use technologies such as AJAX which are mostly JavaScript, hence a browser needs a much better and faster Java Script Engine, for example as implemented in Chrome, called V8, and in Safari, called Nitro.
I tested all these browsers on both my Laptop and Desktop. My desktop has a better config though than my laptop, which is almost 6 years old now. For the sake of transparency I will lay out the configs here too.
I ran this test 10 times on both the computers to remove any statistical error of chance. The test results were same on both the computers with only difference that Safari did not display the Top Sites feature of it’s on my Laptop, which is basically because of the AGP requirement.
Here are the results summarised and then also presented in graph and slideshow of the screenshots.
Results:
Apple Safari: 100/100
Google Chrome: 100/100 the first time and 99/100 repeatedly subsequently
The ruling goes in the favour of Apple Safari 4.0 (530.17) for which the ACID test was nothing more than a cakewalk, closely followed by Chrome and Safari on the iPhone 3G running OS 3.0. Firefox and Opera just closely lagging a little behind. But in all of this, any version of IE doesn’t even qualify to be called a naive let alone novice, and it’s anybody’s informed guess how well will it even satisfy the claims it makes, see here and the desperation to shift people to IE8, see here. And I do not at all agree with anyone calling IE 8 “cool” or “rocks”, because such adjectives are nothing but devouringly ephemeral.
Regards,
Abhijeet Anand
A novice in all such technologies and a learner. :)
Whenever someone would ask me what’s the biggest regret of my life, I would smile and say, “I cannot whistle!”. So true! I HAD no regrets in life but on an honest note, I now regret being an engineer. Past 4 years make me feel miserable. All that I learnt was what I wanted. No on…yes! NO ONE taught me anything. (And may be ’cause they also don’t know!) For once in life I agree to people saying, “India ka kuch ni ho sakta”. Hoga bhi kaise, it’s the nation where people just know how to divide. First they’ll divide the country on East, West, North and South. Then divide on states followed by cities and then streets. Even that is not sufficient and so the division extends to houses and finally in same family. And this result in some marvellous dialogues. “Seeing ur g.p.a. I think you deserve a B+ for a 30 credit project.” No no! It doesn’t matter that you did your project in Infosys (which is THE INDIAN I.T. Company) and scored 95/100. No it doesn’t matter that your college/university had asked for details of evaluation from Infosys. No it doesn’t matter that you worked for your projects in college. And it for sure doesn’t matter that someone gets an A or an A+ for he/she belongs to your state your area bla bla.. and may not even know that java doesn’t have printf and neither does any similar OOP language. All it matters is that you were blessed to be in this crap place where your state gets you your marks not your brains. And for once, I don’t know why but I look upto God to do some good justice. Oh how come I forgot to add, your project is graded as stupid project ’cause the panel of evaluators is more interested in knowing why you want to be a software engineer and not a disgustin (read as career spoiler) lecturer (read as muddle head) in a more crap place. Or may be because you tell that how tough and (more) homnest life is outside this room. Also, you talk about Open source, Linux which is a language of some new galaxy to them. In short, you hint them, that dude! all you lack is LIFE! But you get a B+ ’cause you have been a 6 pointer. Or may be ’cause your project evaluator doesn’t understand how you got into better universities for your masters or may be ’cause he’s unable to understand why the hell does he exist. And if you’re reading this, here’s a toast to you with some good words, “you deserve a life much much more miserable than this!” :-)
NOM!!!
:P
The above given images were generated using nodebox , an exclusive mac os x app .. the app is supposed to take a script and runs the script to generate wonderful patterns . Shoebot is Nodebox’s alternative on Linux world , the last screen shot shows it running some on the node-box’s script [which are in python] ,
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