News from Development
---------------------
It was a little silent in the last months after the Tryton Unconference
Liege 2012[1] (TUL). Take it as silence before the storm, because we
have ground-breaking and mind-changing news for you. You might already
know, Tryton is not just another ERP system,
Tryton can be so much more...
Inspired by this special spirit we started something great and
new. We are very proud to present you and the other developers on this
mailing list a sneak preview of
TOS, the Tryton Operating System*
From our competitors we learned that a good application is worth
nothing, without an unique and optimized operating system. So we
started to develop a new operating system based on the Tryton
technology. We implemented trytond directly in the kernel-land. This
brings an unimaginable performance boost of 2.000 %, yes, two thousand
percent!
The best detail is, TOS is totally X free ;-) Yes, it might be an open
secret, but X11 is too complicated, too old and boring stable. History
tells, a successful operating system never ever has X11 as a display
server. You might ask, which display server we choose for TOS. And yes,
we really would love to use Wayland[2]. But Wayland is missing an
important feature for us. We could implement this feature, but we do
not think it is the way to go. Wayland is like IPv6: Once it is ready
it is obsolete.
We decided to do what every successful operating system vendor does:
having our own technology and start something new from a fork. As a
result we have created 'Titanic' our display server completely written
in Python the core technology of Tryton. Titanic is a fork of Mir[3],
the brand new display manager for Ubuntu which is a fork of Wayland.
BTW we choose the name 'Titanic' to honor the maritime meaning of
Tryton[4] and to follow the name pattern of Ubuntu with Mir[5][6].
Enough appetizer? See our Video[7].
* System Requirements: Runs on computers, tablets, smart phones or
similar hardware.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/tryton/wiki/Liege2012
[2] http://wayland.freedesktop.org
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28mythology%29
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit_of_Mir
[7] http://youtu.be/oHg5SJYRHA0
