http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fri, 24 May 2013 07:41:59 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26627/Syllable_gets_open_sourced_REBOL_3_new_Red_language/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26627/Syllable_gets_open_sourced_REBOL_3_new_Red_language/ As the Syllable project predicted many years ago, version 3 of the REBOL programming language has finally been open sourced, under the Apache 2 licence (screenshot on Syllable Desktop). Also, the alpha version of the high-level Red programming language, supporting Syllable Desktop, has been released, by now in version 0.3.1 (screenshot, demo program, video at the Science Park in Amsterdam). Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:22:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 85 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/26189/Syllable_gets_Enlightenment_graphics_engine/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26189/Syllable_gets_Enlightenment_graphics_engine/ Today marks the tenth anniversary of the first release of Syllable Desktop, then plainly called Syllable 0.4.0. The original website and announcement are gone, and many other circumstances of the time have changed quite dramatically. The project is happy that Syllable is still here - which, judging by comparable ventures, is a feat to be proud of. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:35:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/25810/Interview_Syllable_0_6_7_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25810/Interview_Syllable_0_6_7_released/ The developers of the open source, Amiga-inspired Syllable operating system have chalked up a new release, releasing version 0.6.7. Rohan Pearce at Techworld caught up with lead developer Kaj de Vos for a chat about what's new and the team's future plans. Last year OSNews posted a longer interview with him about the background of the project, also performed by Pearce. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:25:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News rohan_p http://www.osnews.com/story/25809/Syllable_Desktop_0_6_7_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25809/Syllable_Desktop_0_6_7_released/ After two months of testing the release candidate, the Syllable project presents Syllable Desktop 0.6.7. The release notes detail many changes and additions, such as the first 3D functionality in Syllable (screenshot - the screenshot shows tearing because the demos are animating at full speed. This is an artifact of the screenshot process, not of the actual display). Other highlights include that REBOL 3 and Boron are now included and that the system is now prepared for the upcoming high-level Red programming language. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:20:50 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/25716/Syllable_gets_Red_System_bindings_with_C_cURL_SDL_SQLite/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25716/Syllable_gets_Red_System_bindings_with_C_cURL_SDL_SQLite/ Version 0.2.5 of the new Red/System programming language has been released, after it celebrated its first birthday at the third Red Developers Conference. Bindings with the standard C library, cURL, SDL and SQLite that were developed over the past year are now properly supported on Syllable Desktop. Conference videos introduce Red/System and the bindings. Earlier, new floating point support was released (Mandelbrot screenshot; demo source, see the .reds file). Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:48:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/25468/Red_System_Language_Gets_OS_X_ARM_Android_Backends/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25468/Red_System_Language_Gets_OS_X_ARM_Android_Backends/ Red/System, the new programming language that is used in the Syllable project, has reached its next milestone: an ARM code generator backend for its compiler. It supports Android (screenshot) and generic ARM Linux (screenshot on Debian). Earlier, the backend for generating Mac OS X executables was already completed (for x86 CPUs so far). Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:42:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/25122/Interview_Syllable_OS_Lead_Developer_Kaj_de_Vos/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25122/Interview_Syllable_OS_Lead_Developer_Kaj_de_Vos/ Syllable OS lead developer Kaj de Vos has been interviewed by Techworld Australia. The full Q&A is also available (via Slashdot). Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:20:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 78 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News jal_ http://www.osnews.com/story/24921/Red_System_Reaches_Beta_Loads_Syllable_Shared_Libraries/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24921/Red_System_Reaches_Beta_Loads_Syllable_Shared_Libraries/ Red is a new programming language inspired by REBOL, but compiled and open source. The language is currently being bootstrapped by first implementing a lower level dialect, in which the high level, dynamic language will be written. This C class dialect for systems programming, Red/System, has reached beta status after only half a year of development. It now supports using dynamic libraries on Syllable. Also, a new version of Syllable Desktop's FTP client, Transferrer, was released (screenshot accessing Syllable Server). Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:54:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj de Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/24852/New_Syllable_Desktop_Live_CD_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24852/New_Syllable_Desktop_Live_CD_Released/ The Syllable project has released a live CD for Syllable Desktop 0.6.6. It has been a long time since the last live CD, so Syllable 0.6.5 was skipped. The creator of the original live CD left the project, without releasing the build scripts. Further it turned out that a needed patch to Syllable wasn't available, either, so the project had to create a whole new live CD, including a modified kernel. Also, some eighty SDL programs were recently ported to Syllable (video of the Power Manga game). Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:23:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj de Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/24798/New_Red_Programming_Language_Gets_Syllable_Backend/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24798/New_Red_Programming_Language_Gets_Syllable_Backend/ There's a new REBOL like programming language in town. It's called Red, it's BSD licensed and contrary to REBOL and Boron, Red is a compiled language. The Syllable project is proud to announce that Red programs now run on Syllable Desktop. Here is a screenshot from a demo program. Syllable is the third Red target platform, after Windows and Linux. Sun, 29 May 2011 09:44:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/24437/Syllable_Gets_First_REBOL_Binding_With_cURL/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24437/Syllable_Gets_First_REBOL_Binding_With_cURL/ Syllable now has its first separate REBOL binding (screenshot on Syllable Desktop). The project created a binding with the popular cURL library, which is included in Syllable as its networking library. Documentation and downloads for Syllable, Linux and Windows are available here. The binding will be demonstrated at the upcoming REBOL & Boron conference. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:03:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/24121/Syllable_CMS_Ported_to_Syllable_Desktop/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24121/Syllable_CMS_Ported_to_Syllable_Desktop/ The CMS that builds the Syllable websites was used on Syllable Server so far, but has now been ported to Syllable Desktop. This was done by porting it to REBOL 3. This screenshot shows Desktop building its own website in static batch mode and synchronising it with Amazon S3. This screenshot shows the Webster browser previewing the built site as local files. Building the websites on Syllable Server is around 35% faster with REBOL 3 than with REBOL 2. A few longstanding problems in the Russian website and Syllable documentation were fixed because REBOL 3 now understands Unicode. Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:53:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/24071/Syllable_Runs_First_REBOL_3_Extension/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24071/Syllable_Runs_First_REBOL_3_Extension/ The new version 3 of the REBOL programming language supports extensions written in other languages. Extensions are implemented on top of the modules framework, which is also new. Extensions can be separate dynamically loaded libraries, or they can be embedded in the REBOL executable. In fact, REBOL 3 is now highly modularised: a number of its subsystems are embedded modules, and subsystems written in C and C++ are embedded extensions. Those modules and extensions are part of the open host kit, so that custom collections can be compiled into REBOL executables. Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:52:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/24006/Syllable_Desktop_Gets_REBOL_3_Development_Collaboration/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24006/Syllable_Desktop_Gets_REBOL_3_Development_Collaboration/ The latest version of the REBOL 3 open host kit, alpha 110, enables Syllable Desktop for the first time to run the REBOL 3 client/server RebDev collaboration application for chat and development files sharing (screenshot). Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:37:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj-de-Vos http://www.osnews.com/story/23427/Syllable_Server_0_4_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23427/Syllable_Server_0_4_Released/ The Syllable project is pleased to announce that the reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated, and that the new version 0.4 of Syllable Server has been released. This release focuses on maturing existing functionality, improving security, ongoing system restructuring, and making the system a suitable base for third-party package managers. Although the project admits it hasn't brought its unicorn factory online yet, extensive work was done on the nitty-gritty, so the full change log is quite long. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Syllable, AtheOS 65 http://www.osnews.com/topics/2 News Kaj de Vos