Rocklyte Systems is a New Zealand-based software engineering company and creators of the Athene operating system and Pandora Engine.
Athene is an object based operating system that is being developed for use in PC's and embedded systems. The user interface is completely rewriteable and is capable of emulating
other interfaces such as the Windows and Amiga desktop environments (developing your own, custom desktop GUI is a matter of writting a script!). The
Pandora Engine is an all-purpose object oriented SDK, aimed at assisting developers in all areas of the technology industry and it also the base of Athene. The engine is based on Modular Object Oriented technology, which allows you to create true object oriented programs using almost any language. Athene and Pandora
are available for both Windows and Linux. Read more for an interview with Rocklyte's Paul Manias and two new screenshots, showing AtheneOS running under its newly released Windows version.
There seems to be a very disproportionate amount of NZers developing languages and OSes these days
The REBOL list is inundated with us so are the dev forums for lots of other 'fringe' (ie non linux, non windows) coding areas.
Personally I'd rather use REBOL/View over Athene any day - all those loverly little gui things like blurring, gradients etc are already there. Also Carl and Holger have mentioned on the Rebol mailing list that the next version of REBOL/View with Alpha blending and lots of other goodies is almost done
Heh.. sorry Rocklyte, I'm a GUI freak 