Star Users Update AtheOS, But Still No Word from its Founder
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 12th Jul 2002 23:51 UTC
Syllable, AtheOS Reportedly, Kurt Skauen hasn't work on AtheOS for the last 9 months, as he currently taking some long vacations away from his pet project. All this time, a lot of dissapointments have been expressed in the (dying) mailing list about the future of AtheOS, already a (semi-)fork has occured with Cosmoe, but still no word from Kurt if or when he will start working on AtheOS again. Update: It seems that a complete fork has already happen, created by some of the main third party AtheOS developers.
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The name
by Vanders on Sun 14th Jul 2002 15:15 UTC

The name Syllable was choosen because its a well known fact (O.K, maybe not, but bear with me!) that all of the really good Operating Systems have easy to remember, 2 or 3 syllable names. BeOS, Linux, AtheOS, MacOS etc. Knowing this, I spent a week or so trying to think of a name for the OS. I was continually thinking "Two or three syllables!". In the end, I realised that "Syllable" actually fitted that definition quite well, so I ran with it (I hate thinking up names, you see) Syllable is it.

True story! (Disclaimer: I am not an English Major. A name is a name!)