2011-06-03, 21:52
eskro Wrote:@claypigeon:
OpenELEC doesnt sit on a Full Blown Linux OS...
You cant just quit OpenELEC and example
see a Linux Desktop where you can then Browse the Internet using Firefox or Chrome!
Perhaps you need to understand what an OS actual is and does, not knowing this is understandable, it technical and somewhat arcane, if you don't have the background or formal education in say computer science for example. None of those things you listed are really part of an operating system they are applications components that utilize the OS. What I think you are referring to is more of a marketing definition of what an OS is based on packaging of components, per your examples, gnome (linux desktop), firefox and chrome are all applications and have nothing to with the capabilities of an operating system, they in fact utilize the capabilities of the underlying OS. The derivative of linux that openelec is using is as much of true OS as is say the current distribution of Ubuntu is, but the packaging is different, meaning that Ubuntu has been packaged for more general purpose tasks like you outlined, and the linux utilized in the openelec distribution has been packaged into what is commonly called an embedded form, to optimize a focused set of functionality. In the example of openelec, if one has no need for the application you listed why would one want them utilizing resources, if functionality is not needed in the kernel, why include that functionality? I dont think anyone, or at least I never have, made any claims that the linux used in the openelec distribution being used for other off the shelf applications.
So if your point is openelec may have less process competing with system resources then a general purpose distribution of an OS,that is likely a true statement. It would also be likely true to then assume, if system resources are constrained in that environment, this can have an impact to application performance. All of this is irrelevant, as what I was demonstrating in my original post was MQ2 running in a Atom/ION environment to be used as an example of if it is "struggling" or not. Which I will let the observer of the video determine on their own, based on their own perspective. My opinion is, based on the configuration I documented, it works well based on my expectations. I am sure I can build a configuration that it would not work well in too. Please feel free to post your own video showing a configuration that concerns you, so you can demonstrate your point, with out such data your statement are purely conjecture.