Review: Athene is beautiful but flawed
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| Rocklyte Systems' Athene operating environment is at once fascinating
| and frustrating. It's a custom GNU/Linux distribution optimized for
| i686 machines that employs a proprietary graphics toolkit and video
| drivers, which means it's visually impressive and extremely speedy.
| Athene is by far the most unique and technologically advanced
| GNU/Linux derivative to date, but it needs some better
| administrative features, doesn't come with much software, and its
| license is proprietary and restrictive.
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| Right now Athene 2004 doesn't offer much in terms of out-of-the-box
| functionality, and you can't be immediately productive with it,
| making it unsuitable for anyone except those willing to explore and
| tinker with it. If that's your goal, U.S. $110 would seem an excessive
| fee for a year's worth of updates on CD.
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http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/1735216&tid=127&tid=26&tid=104
They try to do with GNU/Linux what Apple did with Darwin.
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