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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as emerges from the syllable site (and the related forum), major apps wont exist, unless they're coded for the native API: mainly because the native api is considered far superior (especially in terms of low resource occupation and bloat- well the lack of it)
so porting a foreign tollkit (gtk, not to say QT) wouldnt be worth the effort , because it wouldnt let appreciate the personality of a what appear to be a light weight OS
more or less the same for SkyOS: the SkyOS team has ported gtk+, but mainly to get GIMP and abiword to run, otherwise development for the native skyos toolkit is recommended
>>does it have a linux or freebsd based kernel or something totally different?
syllable is a fork/evolution of the Atheos project: this in turn is an OS completely on its own:
the kernel is multithreaded/smp capable and has some posix compatibility , but it's not freebsd or linux derived (as proven by the approach to multithreading, without Global Kernel Locks, and the cleaner separation between the kernel's internal structures and device driver routines, via APis)
then the kernel is "tightly coupled" with a X11-free ( unintentional pun :-) ) desktop UI (btw, no text only consoles, only full screen CLI windows for those who "cant live without the shell")