Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 12th Jul 2002 23:51 UTC
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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Your screenshots are "broken" (not loading)
They're not loading because they don't exist yet! You have to understand that Syllable was, uh, pre-emptively announced. The website is incomplete, we do not have a complete build ready for people to install yet, and most of the documentation is missing. You have to give us a few more days; I'm a busy man right about now
Need CD support (to boot and install). Why Atheos never supported this is beyond me.
IDE drivers are, apprently, difficult to get right. However, William Rose has written a driver that does Programmed IO for IDE devices, and is currently working on adding ATAPI support to it so that you can at least see the CD drive on the IDE bus. We still need an ISO-9660 filesystem driver, and William has told me that without DMA, the driver is actually slower than the current BIOS driver! Still, its a promising start.
Will the new fork continue hogging on the same graphics server? I suggest you guys fork Fresco...
We have a GUI & display system that works, and is fairly lightweight and well understood. Syllable is not trying to place itself on the cutting edge of new, flashy, unproven technology. We know that raster based, bitmap blited graphics work, so we'll stick with it. Besides which, layering two graphics servers on top of each other sounds like a sure fire way to add instabality to the system, and slow it down at the same time.
So much work, so little time