red-ray wrote on 2022-11-13, 18:53:

lepidotós wrote on 2022-11-13, 18:39:

It's going for Windows Server 2003/XP x64 once the amd64 port is brought up.

On the Transmeta Efficeon? AFAIK it does not have amd64 so assume this must be another system.

It is 32-bit, Server 2003 came in both architectures, though they're working on making it equally 64-bit capable. There's also ports to the Xbox and PC-98.

Point is, it's targetting, and calls itself, NT 5.2.3790, and once it's at parity with it they'll start going for Vista features.

I've been meaning to give an update, but I've never gotten the opportunity. I've had the time, but I have no clue where my USB stick I use for OS installs is. So to that end, I've gone and ordered two 16GB Micro Center sticks and a 64GB one. The plan is still ReactOS first, then Windows 98 SE, then Fedora Core 3, then antiX 22, then Haiku. For now, I should probably load up some open-source games (e.g. Pingus, Quake, TuxRacer, anything with a Haiku port) for some cross-compatible results.

Once ReactOS is set up, if it gets web browsing over Ethernet working, I'll find some way to benchmark web performance. I don't expect it to do YouTube video, but I might as well give it a shot -- I've had a 450MHz MPC7400 with a Rage 128 8MB valiantly give me ~0.333fps before, so it's not out of the question a ~GHz P4 could do it. After all, this is what the Efficeon was designed specifically to do, so it seems fair to give it a score based on what it's actually supposed to be doing, albeit with a Web so bloated and grotesque it's barely recognizable. I'll probably use Jul, Vogons, Neocities, and my own website (Ultra Reality) as they're a bit closer to ~2004 Internet. If anyone has any suggestions on sites to visit, feel free to drop them below. Also, if anyone has a Pentium 4 M or Mobile Pentium 4 laptop with a Mobility Radeon, 256MB of RAM, and a screen resolution of 1024x768, runs through some of the same tests I've done so far would be appreciated, as well, as my main goal here is to really see how much worse the Efficeon really is compared to mobile CPUs it was competing with.

I wasn't actually sure it would work, but yes, the Mebius 100% can boot off USB thumb drives, not just CDs. And yes, I made certain to back up the XP install before wiping.

Every 25% or so, it pauses copying for a few minutes, but it's finished. I picked BTRFS as my filesystem as I usually do, just because it feels like it's a bit more stable, and other people seem to back up that claim.
First boot:

Extracting files works. As does installing the ALi ATA driver, and maybe the AGP driver? I don't see it in the system info, but nothing is failing after running the installer, either.

Up next is the Radeon driver, which fails.

I'm going to wrap up here for tonight as it's 3:30 or so, but before I do, ROS properly reports the CPU more or less. As TM8000, but still.

I also decided to check to see if the AGP driver worked, and... maybe? Since I can't install the Radeon driver yet, I don't know if AGP is disabled because the driver is disabled or because the standard VGA driver only supports PCI.