Syllable 0.5.7 has been released. You can read the changelog here, and the download locations are here. "The biggest change in this release: everything has been recompiled against the new libc, and we have broken binary compatability through the removal of all the old libgui/libatheos/libsyllable versions. There are also some new drivers, new GUI classes, new bug fixes, and no doubt, new bugs."
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0.5.7 is a normal release that just happens to be the last of the 0.5.x releases, and due to a problem upgrading Zlib we've had to break compatability one release early (We were planing on removing all the old GUI & libc libs in 0.6.0)
Bug fixes are, as always, an ongoing thing. Although I have stipulated that we *must* fix both AFS and the SMP bugs before the end of the 0.6.x releases, and hopefully we'll have *all* the major bugs fixed by the end of 0.6.x's anyway.
To be honest, we need a good filesystem engineer and a good kernel engineer with SMP experience.
Vanders, posting from 0.5.7 (Who can't log in 'cos the "LOGIN button" image map doesn't work in ABrowse for some reason.)
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Syllable is a small (physically, as well) OS based on the one-man AtheOS project, that thanks to Open Source, did not die when the original AtheOS developer lost interest. As I understand it, anyway.
From what I understand, like Linux it aims at POSIX compatability. Syllable seems to be able to use or fairly easily port Linux drivers (maybe because they're FOSS?) Unlike Linux, the more featured version isn't free ($10), and Syllable seems to have a different approach to the whole desktop question.
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I think these guys are doing a great job, never thougt AtheOS would get to where it is today. Keep up the good work!
On the other hand and IMHO the GUI needs an overall realy bad. I know it may sound a bit shallow and all, and i'm also aware that the devs are focusing their attention on the systems internals, but i think a GUI restyling, or a least a basic theming engine with a nice default would help to capture the public eye and perhaps even the atention of some developers... It would be a great PR move.
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I've tried multiple mirrors but can only get this via (legal) torrent at http://www.uwn.granerohosting.com/ddlxtreme/public/download.php?inf...
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> On the other hand and IMHO the GUI needs an overall realy bad.
Not yet. You don't want to have a perfect GUI before other large-ish bugs are shaken out of the rest of the system (ex., as Vanders mentions above, AFS and kernel SMP). The GUI is what gives people the strongest impression of the overall quality of the system -- spit and polish comes last. 
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Did you check http://syllable.org/faq.php?cat_id=6&cat_name=Virtual%20PC">... ? Specifically, you need to disable ATA DMA to get the CD to boot.
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