Linked by Michael Saunders on Mon 2nd Aug 2004 18:21 UTC
Tired of endless Windows security problems? Intrigued by Linux's power but discouraged by its complexity? Tempted by Mac OS but not thrilled with the hardware cost? If so, you might want to investigate the growing bunch of hobbyist OSes -- Syllable, SkyOS, Haiku, MenuetOS, Visopsys, ReactOS and others. Syllable is perhaps the most promising of them all; it's a maturing open source desktop OS with an evolving kernel & device driver range, and is targeted at the home/small-office user.
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The target is what you're aiming at, not where you are now. Of course only developers are going to be interested right now, but our target is to create something that a SOHO user would be comfortable with.
Syllable is a fork of AtheOS and has it's own unique kernel which is SMP capable, multithreaded and re-entrant. It is slightly more modular than Linux and can handle devices and device drivers in a slightly more sane mannner. Because Syllable is released under the [L]GPL the kernel uses some code from Linux (E.g. the slab allocator, device driver code).