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) Thu, 23 May 2013 19:48:50 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/26868/SkyOS_website_finally_fizzles_out/ http://www.osnews.com/story/26868/SkyOS_website_finally_fizzles_out/ The SkyOS website went offline last week following the expiration of its domain name. SkyOS was a thing way, way back in the day, but fizzled out due to disinterest from its lead (and only) developer. It's definitively gone now - I used to have virtually every release from 2.x onwards on discs here, but I threw them all out a few years ago. If you're feeling nostalgic, peruse our SkyOS news archive. Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Chris_G http://www.osnews.com/story/22947/Szeleney_SkyOS_Is_Not_Dead_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22947/Szeleney_SkyOS_Is_Not_Dead_/ Over the past couple of months, I've been getting a number of emails asking me about SkyOS' status. Since I didn't know anything beyond what's on the SkyOS website, and because, well, I have no affiliation with SkyOS, I couldn't really reply to these emails. However, after yet another email sent to me late last week, I decided to simply... Email Robert Szeleney, the man behind the project. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:04:03 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 70 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21726/SkyOS_Linux_Progress_Report/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21726/SkyOS_Linux_Progress_Report/ Not too long ago, Robert Szeleney put the development of SkyOS on a temporary hold. The challenges in keeping up with the ever-changing world of hardware support were simply too big to continue SkyOS then-current development model. As a result, Szeleney recently came up with the idea of using a Linux or NetBSD kernel as the base for SkyOS. Well, we've got a progress report on that one, and in true Szeleney fashion, a lot of work has already been done. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:59:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News JayDee http://www.osnews.com/story/21636/SkyOS_Experiments_with_Linux_NetBSD_Kernels_as_Base/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21636/SkyOS_Experiments_with_Linux_NetBSD_Kernels_as_Base/ The future of SkyOS, the closed-source alternative operating system, had been hanging by a thread for a long time now. Barely any releases, until they came to a grinding halt altogether and Robert Szeleney explained he was pondering the future of SkyOS, and where to take it from here. One of the main problems was a lack of driver support which really made development difficult. Well, this is a problem Szeleney might be able to fix. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 59 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21267/Szeleney_Gives_Update_on_SkyOS_Status/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21267/Szeleney_Gives_Update_on_SkyOS_Status/ Robert Szeleny has given a short update on the status of SkyOS. "For the last weeks and as it looks like quite a few more weeks I'm in contact with a lot of people talking about their ideas to continue SkyOS development. Unfortunately many people completely underestimate the amount of work required to manage a development team for SkyOS, either an open or closed source version, or completely lack vision and or motivation and or seriousness. Anyway, I'm still reading through my inbox hoping to get in contact with people with real motives and knowledge being able to bring SkyOS to the next level." Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:05:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21107/SkyOS_Future_Still_Uncertain/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21107/SkyOS_Future_Still_Uncertain/ At the end of January this year, I wrote a rather harsh, but honest article on the state of SkyOS. I was very worried that the closed-source operating system, for which users have to pay in order to beta test it, would never reach a final version, something that was promised to the people paying the price. This feeling was strengthened by a lack of updates; we were five months without news, six months without a release, and 8 months without a changelog update. My article got the ball rolling, but now that we're five weeks down the road, is that ball still rolling? Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:21:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 72 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20880/SkyOS_Chasing_Butterflies_UPDATED_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20880/SkyOS_Chasing_Butterflies_UPDATED_/ SkyOS has always been criticised for the fact that you have to pay for it in order to beta test it. I personally never saw a problem with this construction, especially since the price included a full copy of SkyOS 5 (they dropped the five) once it was completed. However, as of late, it has become increasingly clear that there may never be anything like a final version - or another test release for that matter. Update: In the comments, Robert Szeleney explained the current SkyOS situation in more detail. For future readers who find this article via a search engine, I've attached Robert's comment to the actual story for completeness' sake. The reply can also be found on the SkyOS website. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:58:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 113 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 Editorial http://www.osnews.com/story/20271/SkyOS_Gets_Crossbar_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20271/SkyOS_Gets_Crossbar_/ Everyone's favourite perpetual beta operating system, SkyOS, has introduced a concept of an interesting new feature, whose inspiration came from a feature on the Playstation 3. The feature is kind of like an always-accessible (even during the boot process) version of Front Row, which you can access using a mouse gesture or a shortcut. It then allows you to access and play all your media files. "So whenever you want to quickly listen to music you don't have to open a dedicated music player. Simply enter crossbar, select your song and return to the desktop. Crossbar has been designed to make this as fast and as straight forward as possible." Click read more for a video. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:48:02 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20150/SkyOS_Build_6947_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20150/SkyOS_Build_6947_Released/ The SkyOS team has released SkyOS Build 6947. This release comes with the new email client as well as the new integrated development environment which we reported about earlier. The SkyOS API has been extended with new classes, and of course a lot of bugs have been squashed. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:34:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19849/SkyOS_Adds_Native_Mail_Client/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19849/SkyOS_Adds_Native_Mail_Client/ "We are proud to announce that the next version of SkyOS will ship with a new Mail client. In contrast to the already available Mozilla Thunderbird mail client, the new Mail application completely integrates with SkyOS. For instance, all mails are stored as separate files with various attributes attach to it. So you can easily and quickly find every mail using the SkyOS Viewer and its query system." Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:33:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) SkyOS 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Coldfirex http://www.osnews.com/story/19568/SkyOS_Build_6915_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19568/SkyOS_Build_6915_Released/ The SkyOS team has released build 6915. "This build features the complete new software store as well as the new viewer supporting location favorites and a query panel. Additionally the new C++ API got a lot of new features like Job support, HTTP download, etc. Just take a loot at this video to see the new features in action." Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:57:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Coldfirex http://www.osnews.com/story/18973/SkyOS_Build_6814_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18973/SkyOS_Build_6814_Released/ SkyOS build 6814 has been released. Among its new features are streaming support, system-wide spell checking, the Mozilla embedded Gecko engine (which is used to create a few applications like a Wikipedia reader), an updated Viewer (file manager), a new theme engine, and more. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:36:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 86 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Coldfirex http://www.osnews.com/story/18856/SkyOS_Gets_New_Theme_Engine_Updated_Viewer_More/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18856/SkyOS_Gets_New_Theme_Engine_Updated_Viewer_More/ SkyOS has received a few updates. First, the new theme engine makes it possible to completely theme SkyOS, without having to write even a single line of code. Furthermore, with only minor changes, WindowBlinds and MS Visual Style (WindowsXP or Vista) themes can be converted to the SkyOS theme format. Additionally, the Viewer (file browsing application) has a new feature called 'NavigationView', which makes it possible to possible to navigate to your devices and manage files easier and faster. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:37:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 52 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Kelly Rush http://www.osnews.com/story/18752/SkyOS_Beta_6796_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18752/SkyOS_Beta_6796_Released/ SkyOS Beta 6796 has been released. "This build features a complete new multimedia framework (the ISS), automatic file type sniffing, a new Media Center, new Panel, updated Viewer, new Application Manager and various other applications using the new C++ API. Furthermore: 28 additional API Classes, new and updated libraries, customizable WindUI theme, 220+ fixed bugs including critical boot bug fixes." Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:23:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 74 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Coldfirex http://www.osnews.com/story/18717/SkyFS_BFS_Reader_for_Windows_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18717/SkyFS_BFS_Reader_for_Windows_Released/ SkyOS contributor Peter Speybrouck released his first version of a SkyFS/BFS reader for Windows. This application allows you to view the file structure and copy files from both SkyFS and BFS partitions. Additionally, it can read the file attributes supported by these filesystems. The application does not yet work on Windows Vista. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:36:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) SkyOS 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/21 News Darkness