Athene 4.2
Athene is a commercial operating system developed by Rocklyte Systems for use in the home and office.
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Athene is a commercial operating system developed by Rocklyte Systems for use in the home and office. Athene combines years of Rocklyte's R&D with the latest Linux technology to create one of the fastest operating systems available today.
With boot times as fast as five seconds and advanced graphics technology not available in standard Linux distributions, Athene is the best low-cost alternative to Windows for your computer desktop
Athene features
The commercial version supports any VESA compliant graphics card and approximately 100 graphics cards are directly supported for full hardware acceleration. This includes cards from NVIDIA, ATI, 3DFX, 3DLabs, Intel, S3, SiS, Matrox and more.
Athene uses a modern graphical user interface that includes the very latest graphics and special effect techniques. Translucent windows & gadgets, fade effects, icon scaling and shadow casting are just a few of the featured capabilities.
The commercial release also boasts the fastest performing desktop of any system based on the Linux kernel and is proven in benchmarks. The OS is compiled specifically for Pentium processors for maximum performance.
We've developed an X11 compatibility server so that you don't have to go without your favourite Linux programs. Run popular programs like Mozilla, Open Office, GIMP and GAIM all from within the Athene desktop.
Plug and play support is provided for multimedia devices such as monitors, graphics cards, audio, mouse and USB devices. Free yourself from ever having to setup your hardware again!
Athene works straight from the CD without pre-installation! Take it with you and use it anywhere. Athene can work with any compatible PC without ever touching the hard drive. When you do install, it takes roughly 10 minutes to do so and partitioning software is available to reorganise your hard-drive. Athene provides a boot menu so that you can keep existing operating systems on your hard drive.
Do you need to run Athene but don't have the ability to install the full version on the hard drive? Or do you need to install it on a corporate PC but just don't have the permission? No problem - we provide Windows and Linux versions for just this situation. These versions are smaller but still capable of running all DML and Pandora compliant software available from us and other developers.
Enhance your system by adding data plugins from us and other vendors. Plugins allow your installed software programs to recognise the latest data formats (such as image and audio files) without having to upgrade each application individually.
Athene includes native support for a number of different multimedia file types. Audio support includes WAV, MOD, S3M, IT and XM files. Image support covers PNG, PCX, JPEG and IFF files. Font support covers TrueType and Windows bitmap standards.
Unicode support is provided as standard for the support of international languages. Enhanced unicode fonts can be installed (available separately) to ensure that unicode characters are displayed correctly.
Create new interfaces or edit the existing ones with Athene's programmable GUI. Now you can generate your own dream interface, either just for you or to share amongst the Athene community.
Everything that 'physically exists' in Athene is an object, whether it be a file, picture, window or application. This provides more consistent management of data between software applications and a more predictable experience when it comes to using the operating system. Network communication is also much simpler, as the objects themselves can be directly passed between Athene systems, rather than converting them to files first.
Powerful data recognition means that you don't need to worry about file-types such as pcx, jpeg, iff or png anymore. Any file format supported by Athene will apply to all programs that run in your desktop. Support for new file formats can be installed easily and instantly supported by all your programs regardless of their antiquity.
Athene supports the Dynamic Markup Language as standard for editing and recreating the operating system environment, as well as component-based applications. Power users can edit scripts to make detailed changes to how the OS works, or create entirely new scripts to perform specific tasks. Scripts are also responsible for presentation management, including the way in which components are positioned, displayed and how they interact with the user.
Athene's emphasis on object scripting provides a unique application model that says goodbye to executable files and welcomes an entirely new method of application development. Using the power of DML scripts, you can edit, add and remove features from your applications so that they are more suitable for your working style. As a power user, you can go so far as to take foreign applications and merge them together, creating hybrid applications for your own personal use.
The development of multi-lingual applications is made easier by storing the language definitions of an application in a script file, rather than compiling them into an executable. By easing the development of multi-lingual applications, international users can benefit from a wider variety of applications that support multiple languages. Software developers also benefit from this encouragement by reaching out to a wider audience. Full support for unicode is included so that international character sets can be displayed correctly.
By allowing users to create the specifications of their own operating system, it is possible to create truly scalable environments by adding or removing components. This means that Athene can be scaled down to work on small embedded devices, or scaled up to take advantage of more powerful desktops and servers.
Micro-tasking allows large applications like word processors and graphics editors to be split into multiple tasks instead of operating in a normal multi-tasking task space. This can prevent large applications from completely crashing in the event of software failure, as faults are limited to a smaller operating space. This feature is better than threads, which are not protected from each other, and is also of great benefit to computers with two or more processing units.
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